Escape from Witchwood Hollow by Jordan Elizabeth

Escape from Witchwood Hollow
by Jordan Elizabeth

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Published: 2014
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Genre: Fantasy, Witches, YA
Paperback: 180 pages
Rating: 4

First sentence(s):
Honoria slid her pencil tip over the textured paper, angling the graphite to shade her drawn tree.

Everyone in Arnn - a small farming town with more legends than residents - knows the story of Witchwood Hollow: if you venture into the whispering forest, the witch will trap your soul among the shadowed trees. After losing her parents in a horrific terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, fifteen-year-old Honoria and her older brother escape New York City to Arnn.

In the lure of that perpetual darkness, Honoria finds hope, when she should be afraid. Perhaps the witch can reunite her with her lost parents. Awakening the witch, however, brings more than salvation from mourning, for Honoria discovers a past of missing children and broken promises. To save the citizens of Arnn from becoming the witch's next victims, she must find the truth behind the woman's madness. How deep into Witchwood Hollow does Honoria dare venture?

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My two-bits:

I found this to be a light witch-y tale perfect for getting into the Halloween mood.

There are flashbacks into history and flash forwards to the present that eventually gel in the end and leaves you with an a-ha moment.

Not too spooky or scary. However, can make you leery before walking in the woods.

About the author:

Jordan Elizabeth, formally Jordan Elizabeth Mierek, writes down her nightmares in order to live her dreams. With an eclectic job history behind her, she is now diving into the world of author. It happens to be her most favorite one yet.

When she’s not creating art or searching for lost history in the woods, she’s updating her blog. Jordan is the president of the Utica Writers Club. She roams Central New York, but she loves to travel.

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* review copy courtesy of author

* part of the R.I.P. X challenge (here)

R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril X

R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril X
hosted by the Estella Society
September 1 - October 31, 2015
(details and signup) | (review links)

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I participated in this challenge back in 2009 and had a blast. For this Fall season, I decided to do it again with the new books and films coming out.

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Rules:
1. Have fun reading (and watching).
2. Share that fun with others.

Select from these genres and pick your peril (here):

Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Dark Fantasy.
Gothic.
Horror.
Supernatural.

Or anything sufficiently moody that shares a kinship with the above.

My Peril picks:

Peril the First: Read four books, any length, that you feel fit (the very broad definitions) of R.I.P. literature.

The Demon's Grave
by E.M. MacCallum
-Urban Fantasy
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Devil and Winnie Flynn
by Micol Ostow
illustrated by David Ostow
-Paranormal, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Escape from Witchwood Hollow
by Jordan Elizabeth
-Fantasy, Witches, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Silent Circle
(The Witches Circle #1)
by Cassandra Larsen
-Fantasy, Witches, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
Extra:

The Girl Without A Name
by Sandra Block
-Psychological thriller
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Measure of Temperance
by Ichabod Temperance
-Steampunk, Zombies
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
-Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads
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Peril of the Short Story: Read short stories any time during the challenge.

Necronomicon:
The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
(Commemorative Edition)
Amazon | Goodreads=====> I read the first story in this collection and did not really take to it. I will try one more and if it is another no-go then I will change my book pick for this peril.

=====> Read the second story which was somewhat amusing. I will try again with the third story in this collection.

=====> Just can't bring myself to read another story. I will set this aside for another time.

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Peril On the Screen: This is for those of us that like to watch suitably scary, eerie, mysterious gothic fare during this time of year. It may be something on the small screen or large.

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Revenge of the Creature (1955) --> Clint Eastwood has a small part in this one
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
-Horror, SciFi
my rating: 4
Amazon | imdb=====> Creature from the Black Lagoon can be viewed as a classic in that monster costumes come into play.

Let The Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
-Horror, Vampires
my rating: 5
imdb=====> This is one that you could re-watch and become aware of different aspects of the story being told. A love story (or not) in different ways.

The Visit
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Theatre release date: September 11, 2015
imdb | my review -coming=====> Aw shucks, missed it in theatre. Will have to wait for DVD.

The Last Witch Hunter
Director: Breck Eisner
Theatre release date: October 23, 2015
imdb

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Director: Christopher Landon
Theatre release date: October 30, 2015
imdb
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Peril of the Group Read: September 18 to October 18

The Quick
by Lauren Owen
Amazon | Goodreads=====> I started reading this but just could not get into it. Perhaps I will try it another time.

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* R.I.P.X artwork by Abigail Larson

Stacking the Shelves - 6.20.15

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

Beat
by Vi Keeland
-New Adult, Romance
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> saw this on a couple fellow blogger Stacking the Shelves posts and it called to me...

For Review:

Escape from Witchwood Hollow
by Jordan Elizabeth
-Fantasy, Witches, YA
courtesy of author
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

Let's Pretend This Never Happened:
A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson
-Humor, Memoir
Amazon | Goodreads
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.

In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.

=====> listening to the audio version which the author reads. Hilarious!

Must GET her next book...

Furiously Happy:
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by Jenny Lawson
-Humor, Memoir
Release date: September 22, 2015
Amazon | Goodreads
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.

But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says:

"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.

"Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'"

Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy."

Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.

OTHER things bookish-related:

COYER Scavenger Hunt
The Clean Out Your E-Reads Challenge
Saturday, June 20 – Friday, September 4, 2015
hosted by Fantasy is More Fun, Because Reading, and Books, Movies, Reviews.Oh My!
(details, rules and signup)

=====> Starts today! I am looking forward to filling in my scavenger scorecard (here)!

AND binge watching:

Breaking Bad
tv series, season four
-crime, drama
Amazon | imdb
A chemistry teacher diagnosed with a terminal lung cancer teams up with his former student to cook and sell crystal meth.

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