"The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane"
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"The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane"
Cross posted from Sci-fi/fantasy:
Sarah Allister carries the burden of her family’s 300-year old curse. She and the other residents of Blinney Lane are trapped within a three block confine of Blinney Lane by a curse placed on their ancestral families. Sarah spends her days running her bookstore while shyly flirting with the local delivery man and cataloging all the unusual occurrences that happen as a result of the curse. Her well ordered, if slightly unusual, life is disrupted with the arrival of her wayward teenage nephew, Ricky, who has been sent to stay with her for the summer.
Ricky unknowingly triggers the curse when he lends one of the enchanted ‘weeping books’, where the land of Farwin Wood is set, to a young girl who is drawn in and trapped by the magic of the book. The weeping books, a set of enchanted books the reader can enter if they fall asleep with the book open, were written by an ancestor of Sarah’s as a way for Allister family to escape their narrow existence on Blinney Lane. Although Sarah swore more than twenty years ago never to return to Farwin Wood she must enter the story of Farwin Wood with Ricky in order to rescue the young girl. There Sarah must face her first love and the results of the last tragic summer she spent there.
The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane is a great mix of modern fiction, fantasy, adventure, and romance. Drea Damara introduces Farwin Wood through a series of flashbacks of the last summer Sarah and her older brother Richard spent there. The story jumps between Farwin Wood and Blinney Lane effortlessly as the past and present, fantasy and reality collide. The story unfolds in segments leaving the reader of the edge of their seat waiting to find out what happened on that fateful summer while also waiting anxiously to discover what will happen in the real world.
This freshman effort by Drea Damara is rich, complex story that crosses many genres and will appeal to a wide range of readers. It is suitable for young adults.
Sarah Allister carries the burden of her family’s 300-year old curse. She and the other residents of Blinney Lane are trapped within a three block confine of Blinney Lane by a curse placed on their ancestral families. Sarah spends her days running her bookstore while shyly flirting with the local delivery man and cataloging all the unusual occurrences that happen as a result of the curse. Her well ordered, if slightly unusual, life is disrupted with the arrival of her wayward teenage nephew, Ricky, who has been sent to stay with her for the summer.
Ricky unknowingly triggers the curse when he lends one of the enchanted ‘weeping books’, where the land of Farwin Wood is set, to a young girl who is drawn in and trapped by the magic of the book. The weeping books, a set of enchanted books the reader can enter if they fall asleep with the book open, were written by an ancestor of Sarah’s as a way for Allister family to escape their narrow existence on Blinney Lane. Although Sarah swore more than twenty years ago never to return to Farwin Wood she must enter the story of Farwin Wood with Ricky in order to rescue the young girl. There Sarah must face her first love and the results of the last tragic summer she spent there.
The Weeping Books of Blinney Lane is a great mix of modern fiction, fantasy, adventure, and romance. Drea Damara introduces Farwin Wood through a series of flashbacks of the last summer Sarah and her older brother Richard spent there. The story jumps between Farwin Wood and Blinney Lane effortlessly as the past and present, fantasy and reality collide. The story unfolds in segments leaving the reader of the edge of their seat waiting to find out what happened on that fateful summer while also waiting anxiously to discover what will happen in the real world.
This freshman effort by Drea Damara is rich, complex story that crosses many genres and will appeal to a wide range of readers. It is suitable for young adults.
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