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A retelling | A Sea Witch Review
Sea Witch By Sarah Henning Rating: ★★★★.5 Synopsis Everyone knows what happens in the end. A mermaid, a prince, a true love’s kiss. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. One feared, one royal, and one already dead. Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. A freak. A curse. A witch. A girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. And, as the two girls catch the eyes—and hearts—of two charming princes,…
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Ten tips to set up a writing schedule
It might seem ridiculous to set up a writing schedule but lets be real, writing isn’t easy. Between your job, kids, sleep and all the odd jobs that forever need doing around the house there never feels like enough hours in the day to sit down and write. There are a few simple things you can do to give yourself time to write. One thing that I do, is have an area in my house that is stricktly for writing. This place could be a corner of your bedroom, your favourite area in your yard. Find this place and eliminate all distractions from it, including the internet, most writer’s kryptonite.…
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Beautiful Strength – The last Namsara Review
The last Namsara By Kristen Ciccarelli Harper Collins. Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5 Synopsis: In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness—and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The Destroyer. The death-bringer. These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up learning in hushed whispers, drawn to the forbidden figures of the past. But it isn’t until she becomes the fiercest, most feared dragon slayer in the land that she takes on the role of the…
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10 tips to kick writers block in the…
Writer’s block, the dreaded and ever feared writer’s block. The dictionary defines it as: ‘A condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing’. In theory that is exactly what it is but when you’re the one sitting there with your pen poised over paper or your fingers ready to tap away at your keyboard, it can feel like a wall of stone has slammed into the forefront of your mind and no matter how long you stand there bashing your fists against it, the wall won’t come down. You are not the only writer who has ever been stuck and you will not be the last. Writer’s block will at some point…
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Heroine role model but….-A City of Bones Review
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones By Cassandra Clare Walker books. 541pp. $22.99 NZD Rating: ★ ★ City of Bones is a young adult novel set in New York City in 2007. The story follows fifteen-year-old Clarissa (Clary) Fray. The story starts simple enough, Clary and her best friend Simon Lewis are out celebrating Clary’s birthday at the Pandemonium club, until she finds herself the only witness to a murder that is committed by three teenagers who are covered in strange tattoos and carrying bizarre weapons and to top it off, she is the only one who can see them. Within twenty-four hours Clary is swept up into the world of Shadowhunter’s, half…
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5 Ways the build a believable world
Previously, I have had many struggles when it comes to creating a believable world but I find that the one thing that always helps is to jot down ideas. You need to be able to ask yourself what your world is really like and be able to answer it with certainty. One of the worst things you can do when creating another world is to contradict yourself and drastically change your world from one chapter to the next. Here are a few things to think about when creating your world. Take inspiration from your life The best worlds are ones that feel real, this can easily be achieved by keeping some semblance…
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A story of strength – A Red Queen Review
Title: Red Queen By Victoria Aveyard Bloomsbury Books 388pp. $19.99 NZD Rating: ★★★★ Red Queen is a young adult fantasy novel set in a futuristic dystopia, in a region called Norta -where the colour of one’s blood defines who they are. People with red blood live in poverty. They are slaves and the ones shoved onto the front lines of a never-ending war between a neighbouring region called Lakelands. In comparison, those born of silver blood are the elite, the lords and ladies of the land who possess god-like superpowers and never cease to flaunt this fact in front of the reds. The book follows one red girl, Mare Barrow, who…
