The story begins with an excerpt of Hesiod’s Theogony discussing “the Greek personification of night”, Nyx. “There also stands the gloomy house of Night; ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness. before it Atlas stands erect and on his head and unwearying arms firmly supports the broad sky, where Night and Day cross a bronze threshold …
Hello everyone. Welcome to the slow, agonizing horror known as Marked.
Clary Fray is not anywhere near the blot on the name of print that Bella Swan is. I’ve seen a lot of critics who are otherwise pretty harsh on the series give Clary a free pass. I even understand why. In another story, in the hands of another author, I think that Clary honestly could …
So, after the plagiarism issue, where to go? Jace Wayland.
Alright, I just can’t resist. This is Everything Wrong with the Mortal Instruments. Be grateful that every other book blog seems to be swooning over this thing.
So, I’ve been hedging around this for a while. I’ve talked about it, I’ve mentioned it, but now I’m going to actually talk a little bit about it. Also, I felt that I honestly couldn’t end this Everything Wrong With series without talking about the reason why it was so popular. Twilight’s popularity wasn’t something …
When writing, one of the most important things that a person must do is plan out what is going to happen. Of course, for many writers, these plans are sometimes forced to change. For instance, in Harry Potter, Rowling originally had the entire ending chapter written out, so that she knew where the seven books were going …
The audience of a book is something that most writers have in mind. We usually set out to write a children’s book, or a YA novel, or adult fiction, and the writing reflects that. There are things that I can get away with in YA that wouldn’t fly in middle grade, but there are also …
“I’m not anti-woman, I’m anti-human,” -Stephenie Meyer. It’s time to address this. The Anti-Human Thing
Genre is important. Readers have expectations for their genre, and genres have certain conventions. While authors will play with conventions and tropes on occasion, there are still certain things that they will hold to. Fantasy needs an element of the fantastic. Be it high fantasy, urban fantasy or any other form of fantasy. Science fiction …
The Negative Reader 