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Simon Rae is a British poet broadcaster biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company He won the Poetry Societys National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002 Simon Rae is a British poet broadcaster biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company He won the Poetry Society s National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002 site_link Read to halfway through chapter 3I enjoyed Chapter 1 despite it being slow moving and detailed the detail puts you right there with Marcus But in chapters 2 and 3 the pace does not speed up and we re still stuck in the house with Marcus and the creature Even though his friend turns out at some point he doesn t share what s going on with her and she eventually leaves I think it would have helped if she d got involved as well inject a bit of dialogue and banter English I have a lot of problems with this book Mainly I think it s really not written right for the intended audience and for the story that was was being told I found the main character an unconvincing portrayal of a teenage boy in many ways and aside from that just a really unengaging character As for the writing sure Simon Rae can write description but the overly formal tone didn t fit the age range at all and it bored me so I can t really see it entertaining younger readers That coupled with the main character s lack of spirit made this simply not a fun book to read for me. Medusa's Butterfly pdf converter Marcus has the mannerisms and the capacity for fun of a grumpy old man and the narration further emphasizes this He describes people acting mellifluously and talking seductively likes reassuringly military words and is concerned about further fabrications of his actions His favourite hobbies are sitting in silence for hours waiting for fish to come along I get that fishing can be fun but not the way Marcus does it and actually that s his only hobby I would describe him further but honestly I struggled to find anything interesting about his character. Biographies Memoirs Medusa's butterfly haircut If his dullness didn t make him unlikeable enough our thirteen year old protaganist spends most of the story murdering and blackmailing multiple other people He s an expert of lying and hiding things from people and knows how to beat them up effectively including knowledge of how to punch people in the solar plexus And through all this I never felt any sense of remorse or even emotional scarring from him He would say there was a cloud of desolation over his head or something equally as pretentious I m sure yet he s still able to come up with convincing lies and never comes close to giving up and just telling the truth I get that he was being possessed but even in the aftermath he didn t seem very affected by all these terrible things he d done Aside from the droning writing style I think the main reason I found this book quite boring was the lack of conflict and therefore direction through lots of it The villain of the story named Mr Darke seriously wasn t introduced until halfway through the book and the butterfly of the title not until fifty pages after that Medusa is present almost as soon as the story begins but as a villain she didn t add much tension to the story for me as most of the time she seemed helpful to Marcus than actually threatening. Biographies Memoirs Medusa's butterfly haircut Another thing I didn t think was done well was the subplot with Hannah s dad He s clearly abusive and this was dealt with at the end with him making the same promise he s repeatedly made he is going to change the same one he s been inexplicably forgiven for breaking multiple times throughout the book The characters just acted like he was sorry so it was OK which I really didn t agree with. Biographies Memoirs Medusa's butterfly haircut On the whole I found this book quite a slog to get through and not one I think will stick in my memory for very long The reason I didn t give it one star is because though I didn t think the writing was appropriate it wasn t particularly bad however I did find the dialogue very placed and unnatural particularly between the younger characters and this is not the worst book I ve read or anything I just think Rae s ideas could have been executed a lot better Seeing Marcus s hypnosis from his own point of view makes it less obvious to the reader and almost made it seem as though everything he did was cool I think if it had been from Hannah s perspective with a couple of tweaks so she was involved in the lead up to the climax it would have worked a lot better That s just my opinion but yeah for me personally this book was a disappointment English I have high hope on this book as i love any retailing of Medusa The first chapter was slow but still interesting keeps wanting to read then proceed to chapter 2 onwards the story just doesn t make sense I tried my best to keep reading the next few chapters but i dislike the writing it makes me unable to connect with the character especially Marcus English Light reading in a throwaway book kind of thing Throwback to an older style of children s writing though it s a 2014 book English
MEDUSA IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE A terrifying timeless tale of horror and magic from poet Simon Rae A box is left on Marcus s doorstep in the rain Fussy Aunt Hester has told Marcus not to open the front door under any circumstances But she s out and just this once can t hurt can it Except the parcel isn t embroidery supplies for Aunt Hester Or fishing tackle for Uncle Frank Whatever is in there it s alive And it s ANGRY The thing in the box sends Marcus s life spinning horrifyingly out of control controlling his mind and testing his will so that every moment is deadly Can Marcus overcome the pull of the Gorgon s gaze and use her power for good Because he received that box for a reason but he must find out what it is before the terrible beautiful Medusa turns everyone he holds dear to stone and then comes for him Laced with myth this modern story positively writhes with horror and suspense A terrifying unputdownable read for fans of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter Medusa s Butterfly Where there is blame there must be punishment
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