Heart of darkness

I've got this book from Laura Bickle in exhange for a honestly review. Thank you very, very much! This story was really awsome.

  I must begun saying that the cover si a perfect combination with the plot. The girl with brown hair is Katie. She's on the verge of her Rumspringa, and that means that she can go Outside for while and decide if she wants to be baptized and live with plain folks or she'll live Outside.

   Plain folk is  a community, where Katie and her best friend, Elijah are living. I saw that Elijah's in love for K, but she doesn't really want to marry him or to be his girlfriend.

     At the beginning, everything seems OK, normal. Execpt maybe the ravens. But...Elijah's brothers, who're Outside are missing. And something happened. Something big. Why? Because everyone's missing from the Outside community. Just blood and creepy creatures. At start  I thought that the booko was about aliens. And that was kinda weird. When I founded out that's about vampires, I calmed down. There are no roomantic, beautiful vampires. Just evil. And this was different from other stories, and I enjoyed that. More, I was so scared during this book!  The vamps were really creepy.

     I didn't enjoyed by the book the missing of many descriptions. It's ok to have a book with a lot of action and to not bore the reader with description, but at leas two phrases, I need to know what's around the characters. The dialogues were good. Plain folks belive in God, and sometimes it was a bit to much faith. I mean, it's ok to belive in God, but sometimes it was to much. More, the contrast between light (God) and dark (vampires) was incredible.

     Ok, so next, the Bishop and the Elders announce that nowone's inside and no one's outside the gate. Me, I hated Bishop and the Elders. Such evil creatures, who are loving their powers, and don't care of others safety.
       Katie finds, that day, an Outsider, near the gate, who's hurt. The Elders wanted to kill hin, but Katie's pleases convince them to let him die by himself. Katie have a really big soul. She takes the boy and take care of him. Alex was his hame. I loved Alex. He was my favorite character. Lovely, brave and a good boy :)

         The story continues with Katie's fear for the vampires. OK, this proposition was completly wrong. If I ever met a brave character, the one is Katie! She's just so brave ! With the Hexenmeister's help(a witcher) she have at leat a chace to fight with with the vampires. First, she thinks that they weren't attacked because they have a sacred territory, but when the girl that she can't suffer inivite in the vamps... Elijah begun being a good friend, but he's turning into a bad one.

          If everyone will found out about Alex, and more about Katie's crush on him, and if the vampires will destroy everiything...well you'll find out by yourself reading this amaizing book! 

      I didn't enjoy the words in Germain. I don't know that language, so I didn't uderstood anything.

       I liked the character's evolution. And the suspence. It was full of suspence. Don't miss this book! You can't let it from your hand, really!

I'll give a four by five! 4/5

 Pentru ca tot se apropie Halloween-ul, si implicit si ziua mea de nastere(mai sunt doar 11 zile) m-am decis sa incep pentru voi un nou maraton de concursuri!

 Am primit "The hallowed ones" de la Laura Bickle, special pentru concurs, are autograf, toate cele, si va merge in scurt timp la un norocos castigator!

 De asemenea, recenzia cartii va aparea undeva saptamana viitoare pe blog, pentru ca acum citesc "Cicada" .

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 Am fost azi la posta, si pe langa coada extrem de lunga am gasit trei colete...Sa va arat despre ce e vorba:

Am primit de la Cameo Renae cartea "In my dreams" spre recenzare : Thank you very very much, Cameo! I love it!

Am castigat "Cicada" la un concurs pe facebook-ul Bellei. Thank you!!! I can`t wait to read Cicada!
De la Laura Bickle am primit doua exemplare din cartea "The Hallowed ones" , unul spre recenzare si celalalt pentru concurs, cu autograf. (Thank you, Laura! The books look awsome and I `m very very curious! )
Si acum o poza de grup:

I always have a lot of fun writing fantasy. I love asking those 'what if' questions and building worlds around the answers.

For THE HALLOWED ONES, I was wondering who would be best-equipped to survive a large-scale disaster. It occurred to me that the Amish would be uniquely equipped to survive. They are incredibly self-sufficient and are not dependent upon things we take for granted in our world, things like electricity and cars.

I live not too far from a large Amish settlement. When I was a child, my parents would take me to visit, and I was fascinated by a world very different than the one I lived in. I'd see Amish girls my age over the fence and wonder what their lives were like.

2.      What did you always want to be? How do you decided to be a writer? At what age do you decided you want to be a writer?

I've always been scribbling, since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I didn't believe, until recently, that other people would want to read what I wrote. It's incredibly exciting to hear from folks who've enjoyed the stories I tell. 

I work at a library now. I have, at various times, worked in criminal justice, in information technology, and in government. Dreams change, but writing has always been with me.

3.      How do you keep on staying motivated? I know that to write a book it`s a really hard work,so how could you continue this work?

I do my best to keep a writing calendar and to commit to writing a certain number of words a day. Otherwise, I tend to procrastinate. If I don't set deadlines for myself, I would never finish a book.

4.      I know that THE HALLOWED ONES is a great story, so how do you decided you want to write fantasy? When did you begun to write this book? In what year did you begun and how long this book take to be write?

It took me a few months. I started on it during National Novel Writing month in 2010, which always serves as a kick in the pants to get moving on a project!

5.      THE HALLOWED ONES have extraordinary characters. Where do you start a book, with plot, characters or dialogue?

I'm a plotter. I like to have the skeleton of a story mapped out before I begin - the blank page scares me! If I have the bones of the story created, then the writing is just a matter of adding flesh to the skeleton.

6.      Where do you write? Do you write with music, or do you have something that help you to have imagination?

My favorite place to write is out on the patio, where I can hear the frogs and the crickets. I can't write very fast or well in front of the television.I have to really shut the door on distractions to get focus. I can't write very well in coffee shops or around other people.

7.      How was your life 13 years? Did you keep a diary? It was a special notebook or just an ordinary notebook? You decorated it, or you have draws in it? How was the cover?

I did keep lots of notebooks and diaries.  They were just ordinary spiral-bound notebooks, like the kind I had in school. But I kept them hidden in the bottom of a drawer and did decorate them with stickers.

8.      What books did you read between 12-18 years? What was your favorite?

I read all the fantasy books I could get my hands on. My all-time favorite is Robin McKinley's THE HERO AND THE CROWN. I read it when I was a pre-teen, and fell in love with fantasy ever after. It was the first book I'd read that had a female protagonist who slew her own dragons. I was hooked. I've read it at least a dozen times, and always see something new and brilliant in it.

9.      Do you like your new writer life? Is it beautiful, or how much did your life changed from the moment you published THE HALLOWED ONES?

Life is pretty much the same for me as it was before - I still have the same job, working at the library, and live in the same place. But I'm very proud and happy to see the book in print - that made all the difference.

10.  What advice do you have for teen writers?

Stick with it. I really suggest that writers try National Novel Writing Month at least once - it really develops the habit of writing every day.

11.  When is your birthday? And how old are you?

I am older than most pixies, but younger than most dragons.  ;-)

12.  What is your favorite quote?

"No matter where you go, there you are." It's from an old movie called THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI.

Thank you very much, you are incredible! What message do you have for your fans from Romania?

Thank you  so much for interviewing me, and I'm thrilled to have fans in Romania! It's been such a pleasure to meet you and your readers!

Acestea sunt cartile pe care pana la sfarsitul anului mi le doresc neaparat. Check it out:

In my dreams by Cameo Renae

Dominion by Melody Manful







M-am apucat serios de citit carti in engleza. :)




Nu, adica, serios vorbind, pana acum nu citeam decat in romana. Insa, dupa o vreme, cum s-a intamplat in cazul meu, incepe sa ti se ia de cartile in romana. Adica, sunt OK, unele sunt fenomenale, insa mai sunt si din acelea care nu se potrivesc gusturilor mele. In fine, am inceput sa lecturez in engleza doarece, pe langa faptul ca mai imi exarsez engleza, le inteleg mult mai bine.