E.L. Rummery's Blog
December 30, 2015
Review: Mark Lawrence's 'Prince of Thorns'
4/5 stars Screaming women, dual storylines, masterful world-building and some dubious depictions of violence in 'Prince of Thorns'. I started reading 'Prince of Thorns' last year, and stopped - repulsed by the depiction of such extreme violence coming from such a young protagonist: and the casual, offhand descriptions of violence against women. Particularly in the opening scenes (trigger warning) where two sisters are gang-raped and left to be burnt alive. I braced myself, and picked up
December 23, 2015
Review: Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'
4/5 stars Wet blankets and misogynistic creepers galore in du Maurier's 'Rebecca'. Rebecca is a gorgeous novel, filled with dense, rich, evocative prose and dreamlike imagery. The sentences are rhythmic, and every description helps construct the claustrophobic, sensory and nightmarish interiority of the nameless narrator - who (unformed, unnamed, naive) begins to be eclipsed and obliterated by another woman. The novel is not so much a love story as a novel about a feminine subjectivity
December 17, 2015
Free Amazon Giveaway 18-20 December
In the Shadows, the only thing worse than a cold latte is the demon serving it. Want a free, glorious, brilliant, perfectly formatted, Kindle-official edition of 'Thicker than Water?' Want to share it with your friends? 'Thicker than Water' is FREE on Amazon between the 18th - 20th December (12am Pacific time - 7pm here in Australia!) Click on this link to get your copy! And don't forget to share it with your friends - nothing like a new book at Christmas time!
October 23, 2015
Complimentary Copies : Calling all Reviewers!
*Champagne!* Thicker than Water will be live on Amazon within 72 hours! Complimentary advance copies are available for reviews - subscribe to the mailing list for a beautiful electronic edition! Not sure what the book's about? Check out the website. http://www.elrummery.com/ What's worse than a cold latte? Demons. [image error]
October 21, 2015
Are You Too Old to Read YA?
I’ve always read ahead of my age, as a lot of voracious readers do, I think. When I was nine, I was reading about fifteen year-olds. When I was thirteen, I was reading about sixteen year olds. Then, when I was seventeen, I was reading about seventeen year olds. When I was eighteen, I was reading about … seventeen year olds … Twenty? Seventeen year olds. Twenty two? Seventeen year olds. You get the picture. Obviously, there isn’t anything wrong with reading about younger protagonists. I[image error]
