Cast away and folk
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Ivy Bloodgood’s mother is dead, and she should probably be sad about it. This teen gothic mystery novel, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Lisa Maxwell, takes readers to the cold, creepy island of Darkhaven, where a girl with unexplained blackouts grapples with secrets from her dead mother’s past and a legacy of murders that have been committed by her family. Today on the blog we're talking Dreaming Darkly by. Loss and absence pervade the story, including Suee’s own sense of abandonment from a father who shows little interest in her, but the friendships Suee forms prove formidable against both supernatural threats and the twisty social politics of school. Ly’s haunting story gains depth and texture from Park’s minimalist, thick-lined artwork, which sticks to a limited b&w palette occasionally dashed with bright red and muted yellows and blues. Along with whiz kid Hyunwoo and bully target Haeun, Suee attempts to solve this mystery before any more students lose their shadows. Suee has an unusual gap in her memory after hearing a strange voice at school one day, people’s shadows keep disappearing-and Suee’s own shadow has become sentient.
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An ever-expanding group of students dubbed “zeroes” are walking the school’s halls “like a bunch of mindless zombies,” mumbling to themselves and being ignored by teachers. Sullen 12-year-old Suee Lee, new at Outskirtsville Elementary, investigates the strange goings-on at the school in this graphic novel, a revised and reworked collection of three stories that were originally self-published digitally. And as you know, she totally judges a book by the cover!
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Pick up a copy of Gothic Blue Book VI: A Krampus Carol for my story, Cast Away Stones.Įrica, the Davis girl, found a new book for you guys. Wondering what brings the Cailleach to Glen Cloch? Or how the villagers will react to her powerful and sometimes terrifying presence? Did everyone believe in the Cailleach? Did they all honor her? What would happen if any one villager lost his or her faith that worshipping the hag would help them prosper? What could cause one to lose his or her devotion to one who wields such power over their lives?Ĭhoosing my main character, one with both strengths as well as flaws, helped give me the perfect environment in which my story took place and, for better or worse, the Cailleach would make her appearance. I asked myself what the villagers would be like. But that doesn’t mean everything is bright & bountiful in Glen Cloch, the setting of my story. It wasn’t difficult to conjure up a story surrounding the people who worshiped the winter goddess. The isolation of a remote village in the Highlands as winter starts to set in. The harshness of the landscape where survival is a daily struggle. About Cast Away StonesĪs I sat down to write Cast Away Stones, I already had a rich backdrop to work from. I knew she would be the perfect inspiration for my story, but I wanted to do more than simply have her as my main character. Sometimes called The Veiled One, Ageless Lady of Dark Places or Ancient Crone of Wisdom, she has been described as having red teeth and white hair, often found crouching like a wild beast. Not only did they worship her and try to keep her happy, they also revered her, believing their very livelihoods, and their lives, depended on respecting and honoring the hag and her hold over the seasons. There was much folklore attached to her, with rural agricultural communities relying upon her for their prosperity. Originally, when I set out to write a story based in folklore surrounding winter, I remembered some research I’d done on the Cailleach, an ancient winter goddess associated with the grain harvest in Scotland and Ireland. Like most of my stories, Cast Away Stones started as a seed about superstition and ancient practices.