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Review: The Suffering : The Y Logs

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Posted on August 11th, 2015 @ 22:08. My rating: ★. The darkness will find you. Seventeen-year-old Tark knows what it is to be powerless. But Okiku changed that. A restless spirit who ended life as a victim and started death as an avenger, she’s groomed Tark to destroy the wicked. But when darkness pulls them deep into Aokigahara, known as Japan’s suicide forest, Okiku’s justice becomes blurred, and Tark is the one who will pay the price…. While there are dozens of people around him. And nobody even notic...

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Review: The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl : The Y Logs

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Review: The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl. Posted on August 9th, 2015 @ 19:33. The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl: From the Peculiar Adventures of John Lovehart, Esq., Volume 2. My rating: ★. A dark and twisted Victorian melodrama, like Alice in Wonderland goes to Hell, from the author of The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath. Caught between Professor Hummingbird and the demon Angelcakes, Loveheart finds himself entangled in a web much wider and darker than he could have im...

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Review: Mary : The Y Logs

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Posted on June 30th, 2012 @ 15:05. My rating: ★. Mary, a 17-year-old girl from London, moves to lovely Eires Green with her father, mother and grandmother. After a series of bad decisions that led to very dark moments in her life, this is her chance at starting anew: new town, new house, new school, new friends… maybe even a boyfriend! Nevertheless, I really enjoyed reading “Mary”, and will heartily recommend it. Technorati Tags: ann haines. 2 Responses to “Review: Mary”. On June 30th, 2012 4:40 pm.

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Review: Way Down Dark : The Y Logs

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Review: Way Down Dark. Posted on August 3rd, 2015 @ 20:37. Way Down Dark: Australia Book 1. My rating: ★. There’s one truth on. You fight or you die. Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. This is a hell where no one can hide. The only life that Chan’s ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain.

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In The News : The Y Logs

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No way this is OK. By now, everybody, their dog and their neighbours must’ve seen the crapstorm on Twitter, Goodreads and other networks, stemming from this article in the Guardian: http:/ www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic I wish it were a hoax, or some PR stunt (in which case it’d be one done in very bad taste). Unfortunately, I suspect it’s not the case. I’ve [.]. Low Blow Against Childless Women In Politics. Dragons, a Key Theme?

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Books : The Y Logs

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Review: The Bear and the Nightingale. The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden My rating: Blurb: In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift – a precious jewel on [.]. Review: Doctor Who: The American Adventures. Review: The Radium Girls. And they said, No. The [.]. Review: Orphans of the Carnival. Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch My ra...

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Planning : The Y Logs

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Separating the Siamese twins. I’m not talking about cats or a piece of news, but about a process initiated some time ago, grown in my little mind by what’s left of my brains, fed with the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, and finally blossomed in full. This is to say that I separated in two distinct entities (in brief, [.]. A Better Idea Comes In. The Future Before The Present. You Want To Write In What? No kidding, I must really be doomed when it comes to short stories. I’m working on a qui...This we...

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Cover Reveal : The Y Logs

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Violins, pipes and cellos, Orchestras, choirs and solos, Songs to remember, Songs to forget, Songs to unmake the universe… And songs to put it all right. Have a seat in the Chamber of Music. These thirteen stories will take you to distant lands of faerie lords, lovelorn angels, plucky skyship pilots and plague-ravaged scavengers. They [.]. Cover Reveal: How To Date Dead Guys. Cover Reveal: Joe 2 – White Sheets. This isn’t exactly a true “cover reveal”, as in I’m not doing it to an...A few weeks ago, I re...

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Characters : The Y Logs

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Dystopian YA worlds: Show us why they’re wrong. What follows is worth for any dystopian story, but I’ve noticed this phenomenon in YA dystopias, more specifically. It all arose from a discussion I was having on Goodreads, regarding a book I finished a few days ago, and I’ve been thinking it might be worth addressing in a blog post. (Please note that I’m [.]. Character Creation: Naming Patterns. All Kinds of Writing. Chris Howard's Writing and Art. Fred Charles' Blog. The Desk of Karen Lee Field.

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Internet : The Y Logs

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Website: The Fantastic Written Works of… Me. Until today, I had only mentioned it in a couple of places, but now that I’ve more or less finished building it, I’ve realized that I haven’t even written a word about it here on the Y Logs! Time to change that, I say. (To those who’ve already seen a similar announcement in the past [.]. This is [.]. Granted, this webspace has been put to use for more [.]. Misunderstandings Or Real Attacks? I’m pondering this matter today, after having considered a discu...