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WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn’t understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.

But Tomas is a man with a past: a past that is tracking him with deadly intent, and when the dead of Chust begin to rise from their graves, both father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

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Agnes Morgwain

5.0 out of 5 stars My Swordhand is Singing
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2010

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Peter and his father Tomas arrive at a remote village plagued with mysterious deaths. At first Peter is confused when he father builds a moat around their small woodcutter’s hut but soon Peter realizes that a vampire is hunting the woods searching for new victims. This novel opens with a gruesome attack on a woodcutter. These are not romantic “Twilight” vampires. Sedgwick uses the Eastern European legends of the nosferatu and vurkodlak: monsters who are considered diseases in human form. The novel is filled with strange superstitious rituals such as the Miorita where a young woman is forcibly married to unmarried man who has been killed and shut away in a hut outside the village. The relationship between Peter and his father is intense and Tomas is an alcoholic haunted by his past. Peter learns how his father’s history as a warrior as marked his life and must make the decision whether to follow in his footsteps. Scary but very complex and moving as well. Marcus Sedgwick is a personal favourite who approaches horror and supernatural subjects with inteligence and peoples his works with unique characters and situations. The sequel “Kiss of Death” is equally frightening as well.

celticriver

5.0 out of 5 stars first book in a while that i sat up to read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012

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i was quite surprized at the fierceness of tension and action the author put to page. it’s a vampire story where the word “vampire” is never said. and these are not your “twilight” type vampires–attractive, brooding, and romantic. actually, they behave more like ghouls than vamps, but a good story it was nonetheless. the prose was incredibly literate: “there was nothing for Tomas now . . .just the sword, which flew so fast that the air itself was cut in two.” there is also a moral to the story–that you reap only heartbreak and despair when you deny your destiny.

About Marcus Sedgwick Author Of My Swordhand is Singing pdf Book

MARCUS SEDGWICK Author Of My Swordhand is Singing pdf Book was born and raised in East Kent in the south-east of England. He now lives in the French Alps.

He is the winner of many prizes, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus has also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016, giving him the most citations to date for America’s most prestigious book prize for writing for young adults. Other notable award winning books include Floodland, Marcus’ first novel, which won the Branford-Boase Award in 2001, a prize for the best debut novel for children published in the UK each year; My Swordhand is Singing, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize for 2007, and Lunatics and Luck, part of The Raven Mysteries series, which won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011.

His books have been shortlisted for over forty other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (seven times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (four times). He has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Marcus was Writer in Residence at Bath Spa University for three years, reviews for The Guardian newspaper and teaches creative writing at Arvon and Ty Newydd. He has judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards. He has illustrated some of his books, and has provided wood-engravings for a couple of private press books.