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Date Released: July 8th 2011 Pages: 254 pages Date Read: 2/10/12 Format: PDF Source: Author
Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Julia finds herself leaving her London life behind to move with her parents to the Amazon jungle.
A native descendant, she becomes familiarized with her own roots for the first time in her life. However, she never imagines she is about to discover much more than her own past but also just how crowded our little planet is...
This is a present time sci-fi/ fantasy story about trust, friendship, love and self-discovery.
This book falls into the category of YA fiction, though not unsuitable for younger readers.
Swirls is one of the most intriguing books I've ever read. For starters, the summary doesn't give too much away, so the moment I started reading, the big question came to my mind: WHAT? lucky for me this wasn't annoying, it was more like a "What is going on? I want to know! I need to know!" sorta thing.
We start with Julia ready to leave London and go live in the Amazon - she's not too happy about this. Also, she's not too happy with the strange dreams she's been having, especially the part were they torture her... But along with her arrival to the Amazon, a new friend comes - Lola, I Looooved her as a character! - Family secrets, a mysterious tribe leader, a hot boy and a not-so-nice mother [that would be an understatement].
Julia has a very special gift, and soon she finds herself being a very important part of this secret world. I really enjoyed this book and I loved the original world that F.A. Hershey created.
A fitting title, an original story, and a great book with an ending that will leave you wanting for more!
Excerpt from Swirls by F. A. Hershey:
My feet were killing me by now. The twigs and protruded roots felt more like whips lashing on my legs and arms as we walked through the forest’s non-existent paths. Halola and the guide were just a few paces in front of me, and it was clear that walking through the jungle felt like home to them.
I struggled my way through with more determination I thought myself capable of. They often paused and waited for me to catch up, but I just waved them on. I wanted to make myself endure the challenge and overcome it.
When I woke up this morning, I knew that this was going to be a challenge, but that was a challenge I was glad to accept. I was also glad to have something else to think about rather than Gabriel. I’d put on Halola’s hiking boots, my old jeans and a long sleeved shirt to protect my arms from mosquito bites, put on my best courageous face and left my room to meet Halola by the Reception.
What I wasn’t too well prepared for was the weight I would have to carry. I had a load of what felt like a ton of lead strapped to my back, which sometimes made me lose my balance. I’d have fallen backwards to the floor if it wasn’t for trunks of trees, bless them, to hold me up.
‘I’m doing great, don’t worry about me. The view is fantastic!’ I lied, not very convincingly though because the lie didn’t match the straining look I’m sure I had on my face. But I wasn’t lying about the view. It was fantastic.
I felt infinitesimally small compared to the tall, ancient trees around me. I could barely see the sky above my head and the sun’s rays struggled to find their way through the branches.
‘How are you doing?’ Halola asked me every now and then. She pitied me, but her hands were tied. There was no way she could help me much, because she too was carrying a massive load of food on her back.
The more we walked, the trickier it became to walk a straight line. I wondered every now and then if the guide really knew where he was going or if he was just as clueless and lost as I was.
I knew we had walked quite a long way when my hair was matted with sweat and my clothes were so sticky with sweat and dirt and green mould I could have just gone for a swim in the river with my clothes on.
‘We’re almost there,’ Halola spoke over her shoulder, as if reading my worried thoughts.
‘How do you know?’
‘Do you see that giant Kapok tree over there?’ she pointed to a magnificently tall tree that seemed to have been purposefully arranged to be the centre of things, somehow outshining and towering the other trees around it. If Halola, the guide and I joined hands we wouldn’t be able to encircle it all the way, so thick it was.
‘Yes, but there are others like that all over the place.’
‘Yes and no,’ Halola said smiling, ‘This tree here is very special because it’s been here for a long time – much longer than the others of its kind.’
‘And it’s been protected by the Kanuayeds since they settled here,’ added the guide.
‘My grandmother said the tribe has lived here for more than a thousand years,’ I said, remembering what Gran had told me so many times since I was a little girl.
I remembered her stories about the tribe life she always cherished so much. Now walking the paths I’m sure she would be able to walk with her eyes closed, I could imagine more vividly what she always tried to make me visualise and feel about her life here as a young girl – about my age actually. She left for England as a young woman of twenty.
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I decided to end the week on a bit of a lighter note and share some music that's been stuck in my head whenever I think of the later climactic battles of the books I haven't yet started to write.
I have a fairly ecclectic taste in music, but my favourite will always be anything that suggests epic battles, the fight between good and evil, fate of the world in the balance. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that I've started to really like Nightwish. In particular, the following song really gets my heart pounding and eager to write about Nathan Shepherd fighting against impossible odds:
Renée Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Most people start to know her from the movie Bridget Jones's Diary.
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On Monday I talked about women as a minority within certain genres of fiction. I wanted to continue on the theme and today talk about genres which traditionally present strong female characters.
These days the idea of the lone badass woman is incredibly popular. The Anita Blake series, movies such as Underworld, Resident Evil and Salt, or tv shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Alias sell themselves on having a strong woman kicking ass at the core of their concept. That said, I'm not really here to talk about these kinds of examples. These stories still contain strong elements of male fantasy - the sexy heroine who can match or outclass all the men in her world - and while the women in the stories can be examples of strong female characters, depending on your own tastes, I'd rather talk about stories where the protagonist's gender isn't used as a sexual selling-point.
I've come to the realisation that the genre which often best depicts strong women in a way that isn't overtly sexual is the crime drama, or police procedural. I love police procedurals. To this day, Bones is one of my favourite television shows. The thing which strikes me most about them is that the characters are defined first by their role within either the story or the organisation to which they belong.
You don't see Temperance Brennan bent over, showing off her cleavage while she's examining a set of remains or facing down a killer. Her first and foremost function on the show is to solve crimes that other experts would consider unsolvable. Her character is defined by her devotion to her work, her logical mind built as a defence against fear of abandonment, her loyalty to her friends.
Yet we still see that she is a sexual person. She has very open opinions about sexual relationships, even stating that she feels monogamy is illogical in an evolutionary sense. But despite this, her sex life is never the focus of the show and she is far from the promiscuous woman so often portrayed with these opinions, such as the recent incarnation of DC's Starfire, who has become nothing but pure sexual wish-fulfilment, forgetting even the names of men she has slept with, many of whom are her friends and fellow superheroes.
Likewise, Lily Rush in Cold Case is an attractive woman who has romantic relationships, yet is not defined by them. Her role in the story is always cop first, woman second.
Do I think that, in order for women in fiction to be strong, they must deny their feminine side or sacrifice it for their jobs? Not at all. I feel that every aspect of a character should be prioritised in accordance with the needs of the story and the scene in question. Just like male heroes are all business when it comes to chasing down a killer, but can be a devoted father, romantic lover, or show their insecure side in other scenes, female heroes can show their sexual side or their own fears when the right scene calls for it, while in other scenes putting those aspects aside and getting down to the business of saving the day in a non-sexualised manner.
What about you? Who are some of your favourite strong female heroes, and what is it that makes them appeal to you?
