Midwinterblood

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I have a habit of reading weird stories and I appreciate them, so if you want a different kind of story that doesn't have any cliche on it, then go please check out Midwinterblood. Of his story, Sedgwick says, "This was one of those stories that I thought might be a novel originally but actually was much better suited to the tight form of the short story. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group.

This novel is a little tough to summarize, but we're going to anyway because we're awesome like that (you know, if we do say so ourselves). He has judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards.

Of all the stories, I will say that my favorites are that of the doomed fishmonger and the merchant’s daughter and the brother and sister that must evade an undead threat. From the beginning it brims with tension and one can’t help but to be engulfed by a suffocating sense of Impending Doom (making it a perfect Halloween read) but more than that, it is a story with heart and it’s full of sadness and sweetness and beauty. Though the story as a whole itself is very complex when put together at the end, the base of the world and the characters themselves are very simply built - no convoluted overwrought characters fighting in a love triangle like so much of we've seen in YA as of late.

He brings the King and Queen of the painting to life time and time again; each time they meet they portray a different aspect of love, as mother and son, as siblings, as artist and child, always close but never quite meeting as the lovers they swore they would one day be again until this last, seventh encounter. The first story in 2073 (their seventh/last life) with the journalist visiting the island and falling in insta-love with Merle ended with both of them being sacrificed.In 2073 on the remote and secretive island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a ritual sacrifice takes place. This is the perfect book if you're feeling a bit moody or you want to explore the idea of humanity as very faulty creatures. The end was a bit abrupt, but for me, it worked quite a bit considering how Sedgwick crafted this book.

My favorite ones are "The Painter"(1902), "The Unquiet Grave" (1848), and "The Vampire" (10th Century), many of which are violent, pensive, and sad. Anyway, the other lives/stories have them reuniting or sort of reuniting but never actually being together. There is love between mother and son, between siblings, between friends and yes,of course romantic love which also included love between two people of the same gender. There is a main story that runs through the whole book which you start to find more and more out about as the story unfolds itself as you delve deeper into the history of the downright sinister island where it is set. Ova knjiga me je tako zbunila sa prve dve priče da sam se zapitala jesam li ja toliko tupava da uopšte ne kopčam o čemu se radi i u kom pravcu ide O.Absolutely recommended, and I’ll definitely be around to read more from Marcus Sedgwick in the near future. It starts in 2073 with 2 characters, and you get to hear their lives all the way back to the 9th century. Now, that sounds a lot worse than it actually is: this story isn’t really about attachment to the characters but much more plot and theme driven. The first is set in 2073, and then they work backwards, with the penultimate chapter in the Viking Era and the final one long before even that.