If you're looking for a YA fantasy with a bit of scary stuff, this book might be just the thing. The book is well-edited, the plot moves along, and the monsters are well-conceived, although not overly gruesome. But there is more to their relationship than young love, and the truth lies in the visions John has been having about his past - a past he cannot remember. As you might expect, John and Jane begin to fall for one another. They used to live on a farm near Sarah's, but they fled after the monsters killed the girls' mother. They have come from the nearby town of Marysvale, where they live with their father. Then visitors arrive - Jane, who is about John's age, and Jane's younger sister Hannah. He escapes with his life, and arrives at an isolated farm where the owner, a middle-aged woman named Sarah, takes him in. His latest escape leads him through a forest peopled by monsters - creatures with the ability to track and hunt people. So John settles in some town for a little while, until the townspeople realize there's something odd about him, and then he moves on. That makes life difficult for him in this superstitious and suspicious culture. The main character, John Casey, is a man with an odd gift: the ability to see into people's souls. The setting is a frontier region similar to our Old West. Marysvale is a YA horror story of sorts that's set in a fantasy world.
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He is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised for his attachment to mysticism. He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.įorster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect". He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. 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For once, however, Taylor appears to have found a promising love interest in Laura, an American-born crime novelist, with whom he’s recently enjoyed a romantic idyll in Paris. Headstone Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten. While Headstone is the stuff of nightmares, it is also the stuff of redemption, even at great cost. Irish author Bruen’s hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The Devil) finds the Galway PI coping with alcoholism, a permanent limp, hearing loss, and emotional scars that continually threaten to take him down. But these often visceral diversions aren’t just a metaphor for an author battling to write about love and loss. 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