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Rachel Reviews: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
I'm not going to lie to you: I was filled with many reservations before starting this book, recommended to me as it was by a friend who, having been lured into it by people around her, found that it lacked a certain something for her. My vision of my reading was one of endurance, where I had to try and get through it for her sake so that we could then tear it apart and examine its parts in a derisory and scathing manner for our own amusement. In the context of the action of the book, this is quite apt.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in BookClub
Publish or Perish. Content Warning.
"Why are you playing this cruel game? Just give me my son back!" She was dazed as she sat at a desk in a room which was all black. The laptop in front of her cast meagre light. She knew someone else was with her because she caught glimpses of movement in her peripheral vision.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Philosophical Musings of a Homeless Man. Content Warning.
When I think back to those times when I was needed, it is with a sense of deadness. I can't let my emotion in otherwise it will drown me, like it has in the past. It leaves me floundering in its force and its relentlessness, gulping and gasping. I struggle to face its onslaught. It's always present, at the periphery of my consciousness. It's waiting to find its way in.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: Afterburn by D. Andrews
D. Andrews's Afterburn is a vividly imagined tale which concerns itself with Kara and Caethiid who have known each other since childhood. Both are orphans and so it seems only natural that they should become friends, thrown as they are into the same orphanage and having no-one else. However, Caethiid is also intrigued by Kara due to her difference.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: The Lost Immortal by Tony Huston
The Lost Immortal was an enjoyable book to read for many reasons. The idea of immortality and the hunt for it when it is discovered to exist in the world is one that has woven its way through many a good novel and Huston uses the tragic figure of his protagonist, a man of many names but for this review we'll call him Alexandros, to show that it might not be all that it's cracked up to be.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in BookClub
Let's Forget
The scene opens with a creator, the Originator, sitting at a desk. The following is the dialogue that occurs between the Originator (O) and the Machine (M). The Originator is a young man. On the desk is a laptop, in front of which he is sat, his fingers hovering over the keys ready to type, the microphone on so that they can converse.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Writers
Anyone for Dennis?
"So, what're you saying?" "I'm saying you should ask her out!" "I don't know if I can do that." Matt looked at his friend, Dennis and shook his head. It had been years now since Dennis had dated and Matt was concerned that he was still on his own.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
