Showing posts with label shock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shock. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 November 2019

Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

The Ouija board brings up a lot towards the plot and all the snippets spoken are enough to lead us to various scenario's which lay ahead for us.

Rebecca had a terrible accident. She fell down the cliff around their house and broke her leg, thus freezing to her death as it had snowed. The story surrounding Rebecca's death is very intricate and woven into the whole story right from the start of the book, she had an obsession with an old folk ballad about a girl called Charlotte whom froze to death and Rebecca collected the dolls of her after she found them in the basement of their home they now live in.

They were previously owned by the Edwardian school children and one of their girls died from the window, falling.

In this creepy thriller horror story we witnessing how unpredictable dolls can be when they come to life and have their own minds of was a gripping tale which was suspenseful and shocking and I'd love to see this as a film one day!


Tuesday, 22 May 2018

None Of The Above by I W Gregorio

Krissy and Sam are a couple attending homecoming with their friends, Faith and Vee whom is currently injured.

Yet on homecoming night, after having sex, Krissy is in a lot of pain. She makes a doctors appointment and knows the importance of getting checked out after her mum died from cervical cancer.

What she doesn't expect is to be told she has no cervix/uterus and that she really has small testicles instead as she has two small lumps. Devastated at the news she is not a girl but half girl and boy and awaiting further tests to confirm that she is possibly, intersex.

Her father struggles to take in the news as well because in some cases the undeveloped testes can be cancerous. However, takes comfort that Krissy won't die from cervical cancer alike her mum.

Krissy comes to realise that being neither man nor woman on her forms at the doctors makes her none of the above, so again she finds it a struggle to deal with. She finds a contact for an AIS support group and messages them with her number so she can be contacted.

Yet after bullying occurs, surgery options, losing people she was close to before she told her secretnand having her dream of college hanging in the balance just what future does she face?

This book, oh my, it was perfect. Truly original as I never even knew about intersex and what goes into the medical side of what the person he or she has to face. It was an emotional and shocking read not to be missed.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!


Roots: Poems of Remembering: When remembering becomes returning by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection focuses on the metaphor of seeds and roots literally in the ground and in our families and how every step we take is ...