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Review #12: Wattpad Book: Broken Ever After by Adriana Galea

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Title: Broken Ever After

By: Adriana Galea (Wattpad: AdrianaGalea)

Genre: Fantasy

Summary: Quinn Hartley’s life is a fairy tale. She could want for nothing more in life. Or so she thought…until she discovers her friend’s illness and nothing mattered anymore. The happily ever after she had hoped for now shattered and broken.

After a wondrous encounter with a fairy tale character, Quinn embarks on an enchanted journey to save her currently broken ever after. To what length is she willing to go to save her friend’s life? Will the journey be able to change her mind about happily ever afters?

Rating: 💚💚💚💚 (See my Reviews Ratings post for more details)

My review of Broken Ever After:

I loved this story. Quinn is a strong and likeable character, whose values are friendship and loyalty. Ames is hard working and caring character who looks after his two younger siblings. These two are very sweet together and care about each other immensely so when Ames is sick Quinn’s journey to save his life begins; it is both life-threatening and enchanting.

The unique retelling of the different fairytales, including Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, among others, is incredible. It reminds me slightly of the books; The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer (amazing series).

While Quinn is in The Enchanted Kingdom she meets and falls head over heels for a certain Jacob Grimm… (I love him too 😍 )

This story is so creatively thought out and the epilogue was just beautiful. It touched me so much.

Adriana wrote Broken Ever Afters in such a delicate way and many readers will devour just as I did.

 

LINK: https://www.wattpad.com/story/82235666-broken-ever-afters

Review #11: Traditionally Published Book (August 2018): Noisesome Ghosts by Clay Thistleton

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Title: Noisesome Ghosts

By: Clay Thistleton

Genre: Poetry / Paranormal

Summary: “Noisesome Ghosts is a collection of mainly found poems that investigates the phenomenon of ghosts and poltergeists that can speak and write, crossing the entire documented history of these mysterious entities from the second millennium BCE ghost of the Biblical prophet Samuel to the current case of the so-called demons in Seattle.”

Rating: 💚💚💚.5  (3.5) (See my Reviews Ratings post for more details)

My review of Noisesome Ghosts:

This poetry collection is one of a kind. I’ve never read anything quite like it!

These poems are recreated by Clay in such a unique way and the formatting, while sometimes a tad confusing, really express the living human beings as well as the dead souls’ thoughts and fears.

An example of this is:

“Are you buried in the garden?                     No

Can you tell us where?                       In the well

Do you mean under the fir tree?    In the cellar ”

This passage strikes me especially because of the communication between life and death and the ways ghosts want to go back to the land of the living.

Overall, I think that this poetry collection is fascinating and very well-written.

Insights: My Book; The Girl With The Purple Hair

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The next ‘Insight’ is of my first self-published novelette/short story book ‘The Girl With The Purple Hair’.

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I originally posted ‘The Girl With The Purple Hair’ on Wattpad on the 6th of November, 2016. (https://www.wattpad.com/story/89294422-the-girl-with-the-purple-hair-✔%EF%B8%8F). I wanted to see if people would read my story and surprisingly, as of today, 15th October, 2018, it has about 68,800 views and 14,580 votes.

I self-published it on Lulu.com in May, 2018.

The Girl With The Purple Hair is about a 17/18 year old shy mute girl called Violette, who has dyed her hair purple (obviously 🙄 😂 ) and a sensitive 18/19 year old boy, Benny, who’s falling for Violette more than ever.

Violette and Benny have known each other for about eight years and have been friends ever since. When she starts getting bullied, Benny quickly sticks up for her and is furious when people start attacking her and he tries everything he can to protect his girlfriend.

Violette decides she is ready to learn to speak again and invites Benny to go to speech therapy with her. This is a story of healing and over coming toxic people in the form of bullies.

 

Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Purple-Hair-Isabel-Scheck/dp/0244387109/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1539611192&sr=8-2&keywords=isabel+scheck

Insights: My Book; My Dreamland

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This is my second self-published poetry book ‘My Dreamland’ and it’s a bit different to the others.

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‘My Dreamland’ is about a 17 year old girl who dreams about her perfect relationship for a year. It’s about her crush who she hopes likes her as much as she likes them. It’s representing first love and infatuation; some would call it ‘puppy love’ 😊

I’ve split the poems up into four sections; Winter, Summer, Autumn, Spring and for each season I’ve written about 16 poems…

Here is the amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Dreamland-Isabel-Scheck/dp/0244084734/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1539608364&sr=8-6&keywords=isabel+scheck

Insights: My Book; When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide

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I haven’t explained very much about the first poetry collection I’d ever self-published and it’s very special to me.

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When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide is about a young lady  (the Daisy) who falls for a young man (the Thunderstorm). It’s told in the perspective of a daisy who describes a thunderstorm as the gentle, pattering rain, the rolling thunder, the rainbow on dark days, etc. She also finds herself to be uninteresting and paints him as the beautiful one.

Somewhere in the middle of the book she shows her disappointment that the young man is not reciprocating her affections or making any effort at all. The daisy also finds herself becoming slightly bitter saying that he only talks to her when she speaks to him.

Towards the end she realises that actually she can do better than him and gradually starts to distance herself from the thunderstorm.

By the time the poetry book ends, she discovers that, not only can she be as delicate as a daisy, she can also be a raging thunderstorm in her own right.

Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisies-Thunderstorms-Collide-Isabel-Scheck/dp/0244972427/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539613875&sr=1-1