Shadow of Worlds

Shadow Between Worlds by Shiv-R. Gerry Hawkins A dark romantic ballad with two of my favourite artists is the crown jewel of this masterful release. Chris "DJ Siborg" Lacroix. Purchasable with gift card. Tags electronic ebm electro industrial synthpop Germany. If you like Shadow Between Worlds, you may also like: Andrew go to album. Catzklawz go to album. Return to Book Page. Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. After all, nothing can unite four siblings quite like life in an isolated parsonage on the moors. Their vivid imaginations lend them escape from their strict, spartan upbringing, actually transporting them into their created worlds: But at what price?

As Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as their characters—the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna—refuse to let them go. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Worlds of Ink and Shadow , please sign up. I just bought this book for my year-old niece, who is a gifted reader, along with a copy of Jane Eyre.

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Was this a good choice? It can stand alone as a good story, but reading Jane Eyre will definitely add more depth and understanding to the characters.

See all 3 questions about Worlds of Ink and Shadow…. Lists with This Book. This started off really strong but in the end, it definitely just kind of petered out.

I liked the characters and watching the sibling relationship, but I wasn't entirely captured by the characters. Sep 14, Emily May rated it it was ok Shelves: I am a huge Bronte fan. I generally consider Wuthering Heights to be my favourite book of all time, and I grew up not far from the little village of Haworth, where the Brontes lived.

I've visited their house several times and walked the same streets they once walked. I have an interest in them that goes beyond their books and their characters. How did these three young women write some of the best novels of all time between them?

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Especially in a time where women were not encouraged to write. What I am a huge Bronte fan. What about that isolated little place in the Yorkshire moors inspired such a deviance from the norm? So, naturally, a book imagining the Brontes' childhood called to me right away. There are two major problems with this book, though one of them might not be such an issue if you know very little about the Bronte siblings. But let's start with the other one. Most of the book is happening inside their heads. The book takes us deep inside the imaginations of all four Bronte siblings - Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell - trying to recreate the thought processes that led them towards such magnificent stories.

Each of them has their own perspective and, during these chapters, their daily lives blend into their imagination as they create worlds and characters some we will recognize as future Heathcliffs and Rochesters in their minds. Firstly, it is not always easy to tell what is actually happening and what is in their heads. There's no warning; the narrative simply moves straight from their actual lives to a fantasy scenario. But the bigger issue is: It sounds like a potentially fascinating premise in theory, and yet it feels a little bit like when someone wants to tell you about the weird dream they had last night and you just DO NOT CARE.

You know what I mean - Do you really want to hear about the wanderings of someone's subconscious? Even if they dreamed that Katniss Everdeen got sent to Hogwarts instead of the Hunger Games and became a badass witch, other people's dreams are always incredibly boring. You know it's true. So, for me, reading a story about people making up stories in their heads is honestly not that interesting.

I do not know if this was simply never going to work, or if this book just didn't do it very well, but either way - I was really bored. The other major problem is that I know a little something about Charlotte, Emily and Anne. And this book runs with the most basic knowledge of their personalities and doesn't really develop anything else. Charlotte is romantic, but plain, dreaming of equally plain heroines who fall for the very Mr Rochester-like Zamorna.

Emily is a loner who loves the moors. Anne is a preachy good girl. You could probably gather these facts just from reading their books. I would have liked to see a little more depth, a little more personality. This book isn't a biography, so make it up! Instead, I got a mixture of what I already know and what I don't care about. An interesting attempt to look at the young Brontes but, in my opinion, it just didn't work. View all 14 comments. Sep 11, Sarah rated it it was ok Shelves: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis.

This book was just… bizarre. Basically this book was about the Bronte siblings, who were able to write about and enter a magical world of their own creation. This was all a bit weird though when two siblings would disappear, and the other two would find their pens writing all on their own. And then we got parts of the book that took place in this make-believe world — Verdopolis Source: And then we got parts of the book that took place in this make-believe world — Verdopolis, and the whole thing was just weird!

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Jan 24, Korrina OwlCrate rated it it was amazing. I loved this book! I'm not someone who is normally drawn to historical fiction so when I was sent the ARC for this tale about the Bronte sisters, I wasn't sure it would be my cup of tea. But I loved it! I was drawn in right away and found it to be an addictive read. I enjoyed reading about their day to day lives, as well as the lives they lived in their fictional stories they wrote. I thought the idea that their imaginations began to take over quite interesting.

I loved that this was a perfect m I loved this book! I loved that this was a perfect mixture of historical fiction and fantasy! View all 3 comments. Jun 28, A. Howard marked it as to-read. Hurry up January ! I thought the idea of four siblings living secluded in England sounded completely intriguing. Combine that with the gorgeous cover and I was sold. But I couldn't have ended up more disappointed. From the first page I was totally confused by the writing - it was disorganized, jumping from Charlotte, Emily, Branwell, and Anne's point of views, and, to be perfectly blunt, was kind of terrible.

Hardly a chapter went by where Charlotte and Branwell weren't squabbling over something petty and it grew tiresome so quickly. But their selfish, petty, bickering personalities were just annoying, not fascinating in the way that a good character study could have made them. The way Charlotte and Branwell - who were both literary people - wrote was really weird. They did something called "crossing over" where they literally went inside their stories as they were writing them so they could see the characters they had created right in front of them.

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Charlotte would watch her characters and direct them like a play, changing one person's lines and another's dress from gold to purple. This probably sounds like a cool idea, but the way it was written was really confusing. When Charlotte crossed over to a random party scene in her novel, I didn't get any of the casual references and after a while it just became annoying how it constantly felt as thought I were expected to understand everything. I really didn't care anything about these poorly developed characters or the plot that was as slow as molasses.

I think I can chalk all this up to the underdeveloped writing. When I found myself skim reading and not caring about the sentences I was missing, I decided not to push myself to finish a book I obviously wasn't enjoying and move on to something better. If you had the power to make a world, wouldn't you make yourself the hero of every story? The two oldest girls, Maria and Elizabeth, died very young, so we are left with the famous sisters Charlotte Jane Eyre , Emily Wuthering Heights , and Anne Agnes Grey , and the If you had the power to make a world, wouldn't you make yourself the hero of every story?

All of them were writers. When they were still young and unpublished, the children created fictional worlds together and peopled them with all kinds of characters — most of whom would go on to influence major characters in their later, published works. Charlotte and Branwell created Verdopolis , a glittering city somewhere in Africa. Emily and Anne created Gondal , a bleak and romantic world much like the moors behind the family parsonage. And then they cross over. Once inside Verdopolis , Charlotte and Branwell each have their own areas they occupy, their own characters they manipulate, although their separate characters and plot lines often cross paths.

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There are rules to their world — which I really liked. For instance, once a character was dead, there could be no resurrecting them. But Charlotte and Branwell basically signed a deal with the devil in order to create these worlds, and the price for crossing over is very dear indeed. And some magic can never be undone. Charlotte and Branwell visit their world often, preferring the glittering warmth of their creation to the bleak existence of their poor parsonage life in the north of England.

But a while back, they stopped taking Emily and Anne with them, something their younger siblings have never really forgiven them for. Especially Emily, who has developed an infatuation with the dark and broody Alexander Percy — aptly nicknamed Rogue. She misses him so much, that she writes fan fiction about him. Whenever their older siblings disappear, Emily and Anne sneak into their study and read their writings so they can keep up with the story of Verdopolis.

Over time, the characters of Verdopolis begin to become self-aware, and they understand that they inhabit a world created by powerful beings, who create and destroy and manipulate. They refer to these beings as the Genii , plural for Genius , and they know that there are four of them. And when this happens, they begin to revolt. And then she saw it, just beyond the stone wall, eyes read as coals. Charlotte felt the horror of it through her body. Fate Worlds is an expansion for the Fate Core System.

Flexible RPG systems like Fate Core are terrific if you have the time and energy to put into building a world. You can still experience the Fate awesomeness with the help of the Fate Worlds expansion. Fate Worlds Volume Two: Worlds in Shadow is the second in a two-volume set. In Worlds in Shadow, you get six rich story settings.

Each setting includes custom mechanics, NPCs, and story elements—all ready to go using the system provided in Fate Core.