Drabble Prompts for Tue 6th April

Hi all

The drabble prompts for next weeks session are:

Steel or Steal

Underdog

Harm

Have fun with them!
Remember you can do either 100/200 or 300 word drabbles, the choice is your's.

Cheers
Heather

Alice Cinema Trip

Hi All

Don't forget there is no book group tomorrow night, as we're off on a Cinema trip to see the new Alice in Wonderland Movie instead!
20:00 at Odeon Derby if anyone else wants to join us?
See you either tomorrow or next week!

Cheers
Heather

Drable Prompts

Drabble Prompts for group for the 23rd March are:

Wonderland
Lambs
Spring
Easter

Shiver: a Review

Shiver: a quick review

Shiver is the story of Grace and Sam, wolves, teen angst and the biting cold of winter. Stiefvater has an interesting and original twist to the werewolf mythos, and at times her prose can be quite lyrical. Unfortunately I found the switching back and forth between Grace and Sam chapters quite tedious as well as some of the extremely short chapters, but this could just be me nitpicking at literary things that make me twitch.

The “romance” of the characters was by far the longest section of the novel, which was drawn out and occasionally bland to read and made the conflict towards the end of the novel feel rather tacked on the end. Although Grace and Sam had believable character development, the secondary characters are thinly fleshed out. I would have loved to have read more about Olivia, and her friendship with Grace at the expense of Sam‘s terrible song writing (seriously squeamishly nauseating stuff).

As far as teen paranormal romances go this one has a heart of silver at the very least. The characters are believably flawed as human and wolf alike which made for an enjoyable read. Amazon reveals that there is a follow up book, Linger, which I don’t think I will be reading as I think any further stretching out of the story into a series would ruin the first novel, unless it was central to other characters leaving Grace and Sam behind. It’s worth a read if you like teen fiction, and far better written than the likes of the dreaded Twilight books.

Book group tonight

Hi all

Don't forget it's book group tonight 19:30-21:30, £2.50 or FREE with the power!
It's the last week for our February books, our new ones for March will be with us next week.

See you all here!

Cheers
Hev

February Drabble Prompts

A few drabble prompts for February inspiration.


week one: Flint, Fear, Fresh

week two: heart, love, heartache, valentine

Tonight

Hi Guys, don't forget book group tonight at 19:30-21:30, we have 3 books which we're currently choosing to read from and we'll be discussing them all upto chapter 4 tonight!