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A Fractured Conjuring
Down twisted corridors of thought, something waits. Over broken pathways of memory, it pursues. Though unseen, it is close enough to touch...
Critically-acclaimed author Chloe Sender is lost. Lost in an abusive past; lost within her fragmented mind. And she is lost within the pages of her own incomplete manuscript - a story she barely remembers writing that haunts her with every word, with every increasingly twisted sentence. Sleep-deprived and driven to complete the soul-destroying work, she begins to tear at the seams of her relationships. Her nightmares escalate in intensity and violence until she sttempts to destroy the work for the sake of her sanity.
But just outside her consciousness there is someone else - some thing else that will not be silenced. Shimmering at the periphery of her vision, capering hrough her nightmares and seeping into the pages of her manuscript, an ancient evil is in pursuit.
Critically-acclaimed author Chloe Sender is lost. Lost in an abusive past; lost within her fragmented mind. And she is lost within the pages of her own incomplete manuscript - a story she barely remembers writing that haunts her with every word, with every increasingly twisted sentence. Sleep-deprived and driven to complete the soul-destroying work, she begins to tear at the seams of her relationships. Her nightmares escalate in intensity and violence until she sttempts to destroy the work for the sake of her sanity.
But just outside her consciousness there is someone else - some thing else that will not be silenced. Shimmering at the periphery of her vision, capering hrough her nightmares and seeping into the pages of her manuscript, an ancient evil is in pursuit.
- GenresHorror
248 pages, Paperback
Published December 10, 2015
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Martin Reaves
11 books55 followersMartin Reaves is the critically-acclaimed, award-winning author of Dark Thoughts, the Relative series, A Fractured Conjuring, and the Twilight Zone-inspired Rosebud Hill.
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January 21, 2016
Beautifully written, yet utterly terrifying story. This book keeps you off kilter and disoriented, allowing you to experience the story much in the same way the characters are experiencing their circumstances. While definitely in the horror genre, this book is written with literary beauty, romance, and drama. I highly recommend this read to any serious horror fan.
April 29, 2016
I received a free copy from the author in return for an honest review.
Poor Cloe has had a horrible childhood , and her adult life isn't getting any better.
A great spooky read. Highly enjoyed and recommenced.
Watch out for the twist ending!!
Poor Cloe has had a horrible childhood , and her adult life isn't getting any better.
A great spooky read. Highly enjoyed and recommenced.
Watch out for the twist ending!!
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July 24, 2016Review of A FRACTURED CONJURING
I stand in awe of the intellect, the creative imagination, that wrote this novel. This book functions on so many levels--less a vast cast of characters than a multiplicity of levels per character. I read several in-depth reviews before beginning it, and early on in my reading of it, and I am far from being the only reader awestruck. What an imagination is this! Mine feels as if it has been stretched like salt water taffy, then popped back into place, over and over again. Certainly I end the book a different creature than when I had begun it.
Whether you choose to view this story as the chronicle of a descent into madness, or as reincarnation come to life, or as demonic inhabitation, I think that you will not be able to walk away from A FRACTURED CONJURING unchanged. I think the novel should be accompanied by a neon warning label:
"Caution: Your sanity, character, emotions, soul, and spirit will all be supremely rocked and challenged should you take up the concept of reading this novel."
I stand in awe of the intellect, the creative imagination, that wrote this novel. This book functions on so many levels--less a vast cast of characters than a multiplicity of levels per character. I read several in-depth reviews before beginning it, and early on in my reading of it, and I am far from being the only reader awestruck. What an imagination is this! Mine feels as if it has been stretched like salt water taffy, then popped back into place, over and over again. Certainly I end the book a different creature than when I had begun it.
Whether you choose to view this story as the chronicle of a descent into madness, or as reincarnation come to life, or as demonic inhabitation, I think that you will not be able to walk away from A FRACTURED CONJURING unchanged. I think the novel should be accompanied by a neon warning label:
"Caution: Your sanity, character, emotions, soul, and spirit will all be supremely rocked and challenged should you take up the concept of reading this novel."
May 19, 2016
I really felt for Chloe she had an awful childhood and her adult life doesn't seem much better, this is a great read. Very spooky in places and keeps you guessing all the time. The ending is a cracker I certainly didn't guess the twist...!
September 26, 2016
A Fractured Conjuring is a very well written novel of physiological horror. In this story you meet an author named Chloe who had a traumatic childhood. She is older now and seems to have a good handle on life but then nightmares start and she begins writing things that tell of the frailty of her mind. The writer does a very poetic job of writing from her POV in her frail state. I don't want to tell too much for fear of spoilers. But besides the disturbing aspects of Chloe's mind there is also another horror that awaits on the sidelines. This story isn't for faint of heart but what I love about physiological horror is that there is a realism to it that makes it more frightening than any Big Foot.
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