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Aftermath
The mist is rising over the cobbled yard as the wind echoes its soft groan. In a bedroom, four young and naïve girls gather around their makeshift ouija board. But something is watching from the shadows as darkness descends upon them.
This true story takes you on a journey of harrowing events and the aftermath of giving into temptation.
This true story takes you on a journey of harrowing events and the aftermath of giving into temptation.
242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 8, 2015
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July 11, 2020
Loved it
I grew up in the same town as this lady so loved hearing this story and memories of time gone by the haunted house is still there and someone who lives in one of the flats there said in a local group she doesn’t want to read the book whilst living there as she’s quite comfortable with the presence
I hope dyna got her happy ever after
I grew up in the same town as this lady so loved hearing this story and memories of time gone by the haunted house is still there and someone who lives in one of the flats there said in a local group she doesn’t want to read the book whilst living there as she’s quite comfortable with the presence
I hope dyna got her happy ever after
April 16, 2016
Aftermath is a weird one – it claims to be based upon a true story and is classified as a ‘biography‘ on the rear cover, and yet the story follows the author as she grew up, and her experiences with a spirit. I tried really hard to get into it, but it was a struggle.
One of the main problems as I saw it was that the ‘spirit’ was presumably meant to be sinister and scary, but it felt as though the threat never really developed. There were also quite a few cliches throughout, and a lot of formatting mistakes, typos and other little errors that interrupt you while you’re reading.
Now, it is true that perhaps this isn’t necessarily my favourite genre anyway, but I do like to give everything a go and I feel that, if anything, it helps me to shed the rose-tinted glasses and look at a piece of work objectively. Here, I think that a professional editor is needed, but I also think that I still wouldn’t have enjoyed reading this too much purely because of the subject matter.
However, there is something to be said for the author’s use of the Yorkshire dialect – it often feels forced when people try to write dialogue with a dialect, but Dyna has managed to pull it off pretty well. Of course, it does have the same effect that Irvine Welsh’s use of dialect does – it makes it more difficult to read – but it also forces you to think, which is a good thing. But I don’t recommend it.
One of the main problems as I saw it was that the ‘spirit’ was presumably meant to be sinister and scary, but it felt as though the threat never really developed. There were also quite a few cliches throughout, and a lot of formatting mistakes, typos and other little errors that interrupt you while you’re reading.
Now, it is true that perhaps this isn’t necessarily my favourite genre anyway, but I do like to give everything a go and I feel that, if anything, it helps me to shed the rose-tinted glasses and look at a piece of work objectively. Here, I think that a professional editor is needed, but I also think that I still wouldn’t have enjoyed reading this too much purely because of the subject matter.
However, there is something to be said for the author’s use of the Yorkshire dialect – it often feels forced when people try to write dialogue with a dialect, but Dyna has managed to pull it off pretty well. Of course, it does have the same effect that Irvine Welsh’s use of dialect does – it makes it more difficult to read – but it also forces you to think, which is a good thing. But I don’t recommend it.
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