About Blood Fugue:
“Some folks treated the past like an old
friend. The memories warmed them with fondness for what was, and hope for what
was to come. Not me. When I thought of long ago, my insides curdled, and I was
left Feeling sour and wasted.”Jenny Schmidt is a young woman with old heartaches. A small town Texas girl with big city attitude, she just doesn’t fit in. Not that she has ever tried.
Life has pummeled her heart into one big, lonely callus. She has no siblings, both parents were dead by sixteen, and her last grandparent—and caretaker—was in the ground before she turned twenty-one. She’s the last living member of her immediate family. Or so she thinks…
“We found my ‘grandfather’ sitting at his dining room table. An entire scorched pot of coffee dangled from his shaky hand. His skin was the ashen gray shade of thunderclouds, not the rich mocha from the photo I’d seen. There were dark blue circles under each swollen red eye. A halo of white hair skirted his bald head, a crown of tangles and mats. Corpses had more life in them.”
Suddenly, instead of burying it with the dead, Jenny is forced to confront the past. Armed only with an ancient family journal, her rifle, and an Apache tomahawk, she must save her grandfather’s life and embrace her dangerous heritage. Or be devoured by it.
My review:
I would love to find a long lost relative. What would I ask him? Would I be willing to accept what was told to me? I think I would be mad at first, but my need to understand the truth would take over. Jenny gets an email from her dead grandfather, so she decides to go and see him. Thank goodness she has her friend with her, or else she would not believe what she sees. Her grandfather is a broken man in a wheelchair. He shows her his dead farm animal, and then asks her to take down the animal responsible. When she comes back to the farm, her grandfather is missing, and Jenny thinks that it is too late. She goes through with her promise and kills the beast. When she leaves his house she takes an old computer and a journal. The journal holds the key to her family past. As in all stories the past leads you to the future, and you can not have one without the other. Is Jenny ready to live the future she was meant to? Or will she hide away from it?
Sounds cool
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the giveaway, and for the thoughtful reviews. Jenny will definitely find some more monsters to tangle with in the future. :-)
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Thanks so much for hosting a tour stop and for sharing your thoughts. So glad you enjoyed them!
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