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Eventyr: 12 Tales of Love Beyond the Grave
‘Eventyr’ is the Danish word for fairy tales. It also means adventure.
Following the success of 12 Unlikely Conversations comes Andrew O'Connell’s second book of the Eventyr 12 Tales of Love Beyond the Grave.
Restless souls return for answers, to set things right, to claim the living, or to lend a helping hand.
A bird of ill omen, a ghost phone call, a photo that contains a secret, and a patiently waiting shadow are just some of the ghostly manifestations contained within.
Enter a world where the immaterial is revealed, where ghosts are near, and where the difference between this world and the next is but a matter of perception.
Following the success of 12 Unlikely Conversations comes Andrew O'Connell’s second book of the Eventyr 12 Tales of Love Beyond the Grave.
Restless souls return for answers, to set things right, to claim the living, or to lend a helping hand.
A bird of ill omen, a ghost phone call, a photo that contains a secret, and a patiently waiting shadow are just some of the ghostly manifestations contained within.
Enter a world where the immaterial is revealed, where ghosts are near, and where the difference between this world and the next is but a matter of perception.
159 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2015
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January 22, 2023
Returning to the world of Eventyr with the second installment, Tales of Love beyond the Grave, presents 12 stories of a more focused subject matter that being of Love and Death but in such way as I had never experienced. The biggest difference I felt was 12 Unlikely Conversations gave readers quite a whimsical experience with the tales of old, fairytale-esque resonance, as they could have gone in any direction and lost in any place in time whereas Love Beyond the Grave uttered a modern urban-legend tone.
One distraction I did find, having misled myself with the notion of what to expect, like reading an Agatha Christie novel I kept catching myself trying to figure out how the story would end, or which character was destined to meet their demise but every time, even when I may have guessed right, was always in a way I never expected. Constantly resulting with a spine-chilling response. One instance, I was in an emotional high from the stories prier that I couldn’t bring myself to read ‘The Ouija Board’ at night out of fear of my own spiralling imagination.
12 Stories of Love Beyond the Grave is perfectly balanced with sorrow, such as the sudden shock of ‘The Sailor and the Seagull’ and the creeping torment of ‘The Telephone’ to some incredibly sweet tales such as the dream-like tale of ‘The Ancient Ballet Teacher’s Last Dance’ and the story of the fussy old ‘Mrs. Roberts and her Roses’, perhaps the most touching in this respect I found was the tearjerker ‘The Promise’.
It would be unfair to ask ‘Which one do you like better?’ as Andrew O’Connell brings such originality and wholesomeness to each and every story, and the added array of beautiful illustrations once again by Lika Kvirikashvili, that there is just no comparison with these books; the only thing I could say is much like a great wine, it depends on time of day and what you’re in the mood for.
One distraction I did find, having misled myself with the notion of what to expect, like reading an Agatha Christie novel I kept catching myself trying to figure out how the story would end, or which character was destined to meet their demise but every time, even when I may have guessed right, was always in a way I never expected. Constantly resulting with a spine-chilling response. One instance, I was in an emotional high from the stories prier that I couldn’t bring myself to read ‘The Ouija Board’ at night out of fear of my own spiralling imagination.
12 Stories of Love Beyond the Grave is perfectly balanced with sorrow, such as the sudden shock of ‘The Sailor and the Seagull’ and the creeping torment of ‘The Telephone’ to some incredibly sweet tales such as the dream-like tale of ‘The Ancient Ballet Teacher’s Last Dance’ and the story of the fussy old ‘Mrs. Roberts and her Roses’, perhaps the most touching in this respect I found was the tearjerker ‘The Promise’.
It would be unfair to ask ‘Which one do you like better?’ as Andrew O’Connell brings such originality and wholesomeness to each and every story, and the added array of beautiful illustrations once again by Lika Kvirikashvili, that there is just no comparison with these books; the only thing I could say is much like a great wine, it depends on time of day and what you’re in the mood for.
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