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Creation #2
A Creation of Yesterday
Sometimes what was written yesterday can't be changed...
With every breath they took, and every decision they made, something was being created for them tomorrow.
With the help Alice sought in protecting her granddaughter Cami years ago, she thought she knew what tomorrow would look like. For Rick, he and his boys thought they were doing a good job protecting Cami.
What none of them knew, was the real impact of their decisions until today arrived and tomorrow had passed...
This is A Creation of Yesterday...
Creation Series
Book 1 - A Creation of Tomorrow
Book 2 - A Creation of Yesterday
With every breath they took, and every decision they made, something was being created for them tomorrow.
With the help Alice sought in protecting her granddaughter Cami years ago, she thought she knew what tomorrow would look like. For Rick, he and his boys thought they were doing a good job protecting Cami.
What none of them knew, was the real impact of their decisions until today arrived and tomorrow had passed...
This is A Creation of Yesterday...
Creation Series
Book 1 - A Creation of Tomorrow
Book 2 - A Creation of Yesterday
438 pages, Hardcover
First published March 21, 2022
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About the author
D.L. Fletcher
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I am a Canadian full-time employee - mother of two - grandmother of four - married to a wonderfully supportive man who writes in her spare time. I am trying to live at least part of my life doing what excites me the most.
I have had an infatuation with pens, paper, and notepads since I was a small child. This love affair is still as strong today as it was when I first learned to write cursive. I can't walk into a stationary store or down an aisle of pens and paper and not get sucked in.
As a young girl, I thoroughly enjoyed the library and card catalogs. I could have gotten lost inside a library for days, and I would have been in heaven - though I never admitted that to my friends because that would have been weird. I loved books. I still love books! I love everything about them! I love the smell of them, the cream thin or thick pages. I love the covers - soft or hard. I love the way a story can make you get lost inside of it - the author gives you the canvas but your mind does the painting.
All of it fuelled my dream of holding a copy of a book I wrote someday. As my kids grew older the need got stronger. It was so strong I had to make it a reality. Even if I didn't sell one I needed to write one and figure out how to get it into a physical book. I started writing my first novel in private. I wasn't ready to share my passion with anyone. I was just too shy - too self-conscious. Eventually, I had no choice but to share my writing with close trusted people in order for me to get feedback - my mother being the first. I could trust her to be honest, yet kind.
Armed with my mother's input and eventually the others I was brave enough to share my work with I filled in the gaps making my first novel a much fuller story- and here I am - still shy and self-conscious with three published books! I'm not sure if I am a great writer or if my stories are interesting, but they are mine. I love the characters like they have lived a part of my life. I love the stories like they have been a part of my reality.
Anyway...that's the first mile of my journey. One that I hope will be a thousand miles long….
I am a Canadian full-time employee - mother of two - grandmother of four - married to a wonderfully supportive man who writes in her spare time. I am trying to live at least part of my life doing what excites me the most.
I have had an infatuation with pens, paper, and notepads since I was a small child. This love affair is still as strong today as it was when I first learned to write cursive. I can't walk into a stationary store or down an aisle of pens and paper and not get sucked in.
As a young girl, I thoroughly enjoyed the library and card catalogs. I could have gotten lost inside a library for days, and I would have been in heaven - though I never admitted that to my friends because that would have been weird. I loved books. I still love books! I love everything about them! I love the smell of them, the cream thin or thick pages. I love the covers - soft or hard. I love the way a story can make you get lost inside of it - the author gives you the canvas but your mind does the painting.
All of it fuelled my dream of holding a copy of a book I wrote someday. As my kids grew older the need got stronger. It was so strong I had to make it a reality. Even if I didn't sell one I needed to write one and figure out how to get it into a physical book. I started writing my first novel in private. I wasn't ready to share my passion with anyone. I was just too shy - too self-conscious. Eventually, I had no choice but to share my writing with close trusted people in order for me to get feedback - my mother being the first. I could trust her to be honest, yet kind.
Armed with my mother's input and eventually the others I was brave enough to share my work with I filled in the gaps making my first novel a much fuller story- and here I am - still shy and self-conscious with three published books! I'm not sure if I am a great writer or if my stories are interesting, but they are mine. I love the characters like they have lived a part of my life. I love the stories like they have been a part of my reality.
Anyway...that's the first mile of my journey. One that I hope will be a thousand miles long….
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June 9, 2022
I had been looking forward to A Creation of Yesterday (Creation #2) since reading the first book in the series. Now that I've completed it, I have mixed feelings about the follow-up.
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
In my review for A Creation of Tomorrow (Creation #1), I mentioned the fact that it's a love story, but not a romance. The love to which I referred was a wholesome, protective (almost familial) love between a group of hardened adult men and a sweet young girl (Cami) who had suffered abuse at the hands of her father. I enjoyed the beauty that resulted from those relationships. I also enjoyed the ever-present threat of danger that resulted from various circumstances surrounding the characters.
Creation #2 continued that story and kept a similar tone. It introduced new plot elements and characters, and it framed circumstances from Creation #1 in a new light, which I enjoyed. Overall, I felt this was a worthy follow-up to Creation #1, which is why I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. That being said, I had one nitpick and one personal issue that detracted from my enjoyment…
Nitpick: The first book was told from multiple characters' perspectives, and I appreciated the balance that was struck. As the reader, I never spent too long with just one character before checking back in with another. In the second book, much of the first 20 (or so) chapters are told from the perspective of a single character, and there is very little conflict or threat of danger. For that reason, the story felt slow to gain momentum. Once the danger presented itself, the book became exponentially more satisfying for me.
Personal issue: As previously stated, the thing I loved most about Creation #1 was the non-sexual love between the male characters and the young female protagonist. In Creation #2, that love (between the now more mature young lady and a couple of the older males) became sexual, which I did not enjoy. At all. Not to sound too prudish, but the idea that these men would develop sexual feelings for the girl they've been protecting since she was a child felt exploitative and doomed for failure. Especially because Cami opted to have a relationship with not one, but two of these men. I simply don't see that ending well, no matter how non-traditional these characters are. (I suppose my opinion, at least partially, stems from watching people in my real life deal with the disastrous consequences of attempting similar types of non-traditional relationships only to see it all spectacularly fail.) I personally would have preferred a what I consider to be a healthier outcome for Cami, but again, that probably says more about me and my personal values than anything else.
I realize I have now spent more time discussing the negatives of this book than I have the positive, which may seem strange for a book I rated 4/5… but that is because I prefer, as much as possible, not to spoil the primary story for any potential readers. For anyone interested in A Creation of Yesterday, the things I discussed in this review about the plot should still allow those people to experience and appreciate the continuation of the story from the first book.
If you read and enjoyed Creation #1, I encourage you to pick up Creation #2 and let me know what you think!
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
In my review for A Creation of Tomorrow (Creation #1), I mentioned the fact that it's a love story, but not a romance. The love to which I referred was a wholesome, protective (almost familial) love between a group of hardened adult men and a sweet young girl (Cami) who had suffered abuse at the hands of her father. I enjoyed the beauty that resulted from those relationships. I also enjoyed the ever-present threat of danger that resulted from various circumstances surrounding the characters.
Creation #2 continued that story and kept a similar tone. It introduced new plot elements and characters, and it framed circumstances from Creation #1 in a new light, which I enjoyed. Overall, I felt this was a worthy follow-up to Creation #1, which is why I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. That being said, I had one nitpick and one personal issue that detracted from my enjoyment…
Nitpick: The first book was told from multiple characters' perspectives, and I appreciated the balance that was struck. As the reader, I never spent too long with just one character before checking back in with another. In the second book, much of the first 20 (or so) chapters are told from the perspective of a single character, and there is very little conflict or threat of danger. For that reason, the story felt slow to gain momentum. Once the danger presented itself, the book became exponentially more satisfying for me.
Personal issue: As previously stated, the thing I loved most about Creation #1 was the non-sexual love between the male characters and the young female protagonist. In Creation #2, that love (between the now more mature young lady and a couple of the older males) became sexual, which I did not enjoy. At all. Not to sound too prudish, but the idea that these men would develop sexual feelings for the girl they've been protecting since she was a child felt exploitative and doomed for failure. Especially because Cami opted to have a relationship with not one, but two of these men. I simply don't see that ending well, no matter how non-traditional these characters are. (I suppose my opinion, at least partially, stems from watching people in my real life deal with the disastrous consequences of attempting similar types of non-traditional relationships only to see it all spectacularly fail.) I personally would have preferred a what I consider to be a healthier outcome for Cami, but again, that probably says more about me and my personal values than anything else.
I realize I have now spent more time discussing the negatives of this book than I have the positive, which may seem strange for a book I rated 4/5… but that is because I prefer, as much as possible, not to spoil the primary story for any potential readers. For anyone interested in A Creation of Yesterday, the things I discussed in this review about the plot should still allow those people to experience and appreciate the continuation of the story from the first book.
If you read and enjoyed Creation #1, I encourage you to pick up Creation #2 and let me know what you think!
September 4, 2022
I read the audiobook version of this book.
To another good author friend dl fletcher, here's that book review you thought I forgot about, smiles, or even worse thought I was afraid to give due to a bad review, tsktsk.
Sadly, health reasons got in the way so I fell behind and just now able to catch up.
Note:
Once again have those box of tissues nearby because there are some points that will have you crying.
This book is a bit different than book one. There's lots more sexual vibes and jealousy in this one and the author doesn't show the story from the different characters perspective like in the first story. however, it is still a great book to read that is full of twists and turns.
One of those twists and turns had to do with Cami's mother and father. That part had me thinking, yay, Cami can meet her mother, and then the next wondering who her real father is. Whew, what a moment!
I do have to say that I soooo wanted to reach through the book and strangle Cami during a few scenes There were those times that you could see she was just asking for trouble and she knew it, but did it anyways! I went from holding my breath to crying to cursing her all in the space of a few minutes! Bah, she nearly made me pull my hair out!
Once again the narrator Heidi Bindhammer does a great job. She really brings the moments to life for you especially during the emotional scenes.
If you have not read this series yet, then go check it out!
Disclaimer:
I received this book for free from my good author friend D.L. Fletcher and this review is late, but given freely, smiles.
To another good author friend dl fletcher, here's that book review you thought I forgot about, smiles, or even worse thought I was afraid to give due to a bad review, tsktsk.
Sadly, health reasons got in the way so I fell behind and just now able to catch up.
Note:
Once again have those box of tissues nearby because there are some points that will have you crying.
This book is a bit different than book one. There's lots more sexual vibes and jealousy in this one and the author doesn't show the story from the different characters perspective like in the first story. however, it is still a great book to read that is full of twists and turns.
One of those twists and turns had to do with Cami's mother and father. That part had me thinking, yay, Cami can meet her mother, and then the next wondering who her real father is. Whew, what a moment!
I do have to say that I soooo wanted to reach through the book and strangle Cami during a few scenes There were those times that you could see she was just asking for trouble and she knew it, but did it anyways! I went from holding my breath to crying to cursing her all in the space of a few minutes! Bah, she nearly made me pull my hair out!
Once again the narrator Heidi Bindhammer does a great job. She really brings the moments to life for you especially during the emotional scenes.
If you have not read this series yet, then go check it out!
Disclaimer:
I received this book for free from my good author friend D.L. Fletcher and this review is late, but given freely, smiles.
July 28, 2022
“A Creation of Yesterday” continues where “A Creation of Tomorrow” leaves off, Cami’s story and her life since the last book. I will not give away any spoilers because you have to read it with fresh first-time eyes. I will say this is not my usual go-to genre of book. It crosses into romance, and of late I’ve grown a little tired of romance. This book has truly shaken me from romance fatigue.
A Creation of Yesterday is multi-layered and crosses different genres and does it flawlessly. I will say that this is my favorite book of the year. It has complex characters, the plot is definitely unusual, and it had a few surprises that I didn’t see coming. I have fallen in love with all of the characters and hope that D.L. Fletcher writes more about them.
This is one of those books that will keep you up all night reading and then cry because you finished it and boy did I cry. I really enjoy this author’s writing style which is a no-frills way with storytelling and is character driven.
I highly recommend this author and all her books and can’t wait for more from her.
A Creation of Yesterday is multi-layered and crosses different genres and does it flawlessly. I will say that this is my favorite book of the year. It has complex characters, the plot is definitely unusual, and it had a few surprises that I didn’t see coming. I have fallen in love with all of the characters and hope that D.L. Fletcher writes more about them.
This is one of those books that will keep you up all night reading and then cry because you finished it and boy did I cry. I really enjoy this author’s writing style which is a no-frills way with storytelling and is character driven.
I highly recommend this author and all her books and can’t wait for more from her.
June 18, 2022
Loved the narration of Heidi Bindhammer
All that is left untold or unresolved from the first book have all been answered in the follow up book A Creation of Yesterday.
Cami is now a young woman, over coming her past . Rick, Jonathan and Swan are very much in her life. The love scene in this book is done with taste and goes so well with plot , as Cami becoming a woman and a survivor .
This book is brilliant.
All that is left untold or unresolved from the first book have all been answered in the follow up book A Creation of Yesterday.
Cami is now a young woman, over coming her past . Rick, Jonathan and Swan are very much in her life. The love scene in this book is done with taste and goes so well with plot , as Cami becoming a woman and a survivor .
This book is brilliant.
June 9, 2022
I had been looking forward to A Creation of Yesterday (Creation #2) since reading the first book in the series. Now that I've completed it, I have mixed feelings about the follow-up.
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
In my review for A Creation of Tomorrow (Creation #1), I mentioned the fact that it's a love story, but not a romance. The love to which I referred was a wholesome, protective (almost familial) love between a group of hardened adult men and a sweet young girl (Cami) who had suffered abuse at the hands of her father. I enjoyed the beauty that resulted from those relationships. I also enjoyed the ever-present threat of danger that resulted from various circumstances surrounding the characters.
Creation #2 continued that story and kept a similar tone. It introduced new plot elements and characters, and it framed circumstances from Creation #1 in a new light, which I enjoyed. Overall, I felt this was a worthy follow-up to Creation #1, which is why I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. That being said, I had one nitpick and one personal issue that detracted from my enjoyment…
Nitpick: The first book was told from multiple characters' perspectives, and I appreciated the balance that was struck. As the reader, I never spent too long with just one character before checking back in with another. In the second book, much of the first 20 (or so) chapters are told from the perspective of a single character, and there is very little conflict or threat of danger. For that reason, the story felt slow to gain momentum. Once the danger presented itself, the book became exponentially more satisfying for me.
Personal issue: As previously stated, the thing I loved most about Creation #1 was the non-sexual love between the male characters and the young female protagonist. In Creation #2, that love (between the now more mature young lady and a couple of the older males) became sexual, which I did not enjoy. At all. Not to sound too prudish, but the idea that these men would develop sexual feelings for the girl they've been protecting since she was a child felt exploitative and doomed for failure. Especially because Cami opted to have a relationship with not one, but two of these men. I simply don't see that ending well, no matter how non-traditional these characters are. (I suppose my opinion, at least partially, stems from watching people in my real life deal with the disastrous consequences of attempting similar types of non-traditional relationships only to see it all spectacularly fail.) I personally would have preferred a what I consider to be a healthier outcome for Cami, but again, that probably says more about me and my personal values than anything else.
I realize I have now spent more time discussing the negatives of this book than I have the positive, which may seem strange for a book I rated 4/5… but that is because I prefer, as much as possible, not to spoil the primary story for any potential readers. For anyone interested in A Creation of Yesterday, the things I discussed in this review about the plot should still allow those people to experience and appreciate the continuation of the story from the first book.
If you read and enjoyed Creation #1, I encourage you to pick up Creation #2 and let me know what you think!
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
In my review for A Creation of Tomorrow (Creation #1), I mentioned the fact that it's a love story, but not a romance. The love to which I referred was a wholesome, protective (almost familial) love between a group of hardened adult men and a sweet young girl (Cami) who had suffered abuse at the hands of her father. I enjoyed the beauty that resulted from those relationships. I also enjoyed the ever-present threat of danger that resulted from various circumstances surrounding the characters.
Creation #2 continued that story and kept a similar tone. It introduced new plot elements and characters, and it framed circumstances from Creation #1 in a new light, which I enjoyed. Overall, I felt this was a worthy follow-up to Creation #1, which is why I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. That being said, I had one nitpick and one personal issue that detracted from my enjoyment…
Nitpick: The first book was told from multiple characters' perspectives, and I appreciated the balance that was struck. As the reader, I never spent too long with just one character before checking back in with another. In the second book, much of the first 20 (or so) chapters are told from the perspective of a single character, and there is very little conflict or threat of danger. For that reason, the story felt slow to gain momentum. Once the danger presented itself, the book became exponentially more satisfying for me.
Personal issue: As previously stated, the thing I loved most about Creation #1 was the non-sexual love between the male characters and the young female protagonist. In Creation #2, that love (between the now more mature young lady and a couple of the older males) became sexual, which I did not enjoy. At all. Not to sound too prudish, but the idea that these men would develop sexual feelings for the girl they've been protecting since she was a child felt exploitative and doomed for failure. Especially because Cami opted to have a relationship with not one, but two of these men. I simply don't see that ending well, no matter how non-traditional these characters are. (I suppose my opinion, at least partially, stems from watching people in my real life deal with the disastrous consequences of attempting similar types of non-traditional relationships only to see it all spectacularly fail.) I personally would have preferred a what I consider to be a healthier outcome for Cami, but again, that probably says more about me and my personal values than anything else.
I realize I have now spent more time discussing the negatives of this book than I have the positive, which may seem strange for a book I rated 4/5… but that is because I prefer, as much as possible, not to spoil the primary story for any potential readers. For anyone interested in A Creation of Yesterday, the things I discussed in this review about the plot should still allow those people to experience and appreciate the continuation of the story from the first book.
If you read and enjoyed Creation #1, I encourage you to pick up Creation #2 and let me know what you think!
June 18, 2022
Loved the narration of Heidi Bindhammer
All that is left untold or unresolved from the first book have all been answered in the follow up book A Creation of Yesterday.
Cami is now a young woman, over coming her past . Rick, Jonathan and Swan are very much in her life.
This book is brilliant.
All that is left untold or unresolved from the first book have all been answered in the follow up book A Creation of Yesterday.
Cami is now a young woman, over coming her past . Rick, Jonathan and Swan are very much in her life.
This book is brilliant.
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