![]() And once the deed is done, you’re forever in their debt. Synopsis: Anyone can ask the Red Court for a favor…but every request comes at a cost. These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin But I am very intimidated by the idea of playing in the romance playground. And naturally sometimes a romantic storyline develops in those stories. I have played around in the playgrounds of suspense, thriller, horror, paranormal, urban fantasy, high fantasy. I can’t say yet if it will work for me, but I’ll keep you updated for sure.Īnd romance, my gods that scares me. So this will be an entirely new experience for me. I have always been a fly by the seat of my pants writer and gone into a book with a vague plot idea and just let the inspiration flow. I have character outlines, relationship outlines, and chapter outlines. And it’s an entirely different genre than I have ever written before, romance!Ĭompared to other years, I have planned this book to death. The plot is clearly formed in my mind from beginning to end. ![]() The characters have come to me over time, developing their personalities a little bit at a time. This is a story idea I’ve been playing around with all year. This year is a bit of a different feeling. Sometimes I completed the 50,000 word goal, sometimes other life priorities got in the way. I realized today that this is the fourteenth year I will be participating in Nano. I am going a little bit outside my normal blog routine to talk about the new year of National Novel Writing Month. It’s a very good book but just not well suited for audio. I found myself having to Google some of the items because I just couldn’t picture what we were talking about and I didn’t have the pictures in front of me. Ultimately I am not sure if this is well suited to an audiobook though since a lot of those book is visual. I had never heard of a lot of these items and that was refreshing. The rest of them were quite fascinating though. There weren’t any details that I hadn’t heard before nor any fresh take on the item’s legend. Some of them I had read about in other volumes and frankly I found those ones run of the mill. The stories of the items were interesting. ![]() ![]() Since the stories are a bit short and full of facts it could have ended up dry and boring but the narrator managed to bring a lot of life and wit to the story. This audiobook was quite a quick journey, I think I got it finished in about a day and a half. Review: ***Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. But never before have the true stories of these infamous real-life items been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume. As a culture, we can’t seem to get enough of cursed objects. They’re cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of misfortune, all they need…is you. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Spanning decades and continents, subjects range from the opulent Hope Diamond to the humble Busy Stoop chair. Synopsis: An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizarre real-life cursed objects throughout history. Ockerīuy this book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World’s Most Infamous Items by J.W. ![]()
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