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Original Title: My Swordhand is Singing
ISBN: 0375846891 (ISBN13: 9780375846892)
Edition Language: English
Series: My Swordhand is Singing #1
Setting: Khust(Ukraine) Romania
Literary Awards: Manchester Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2008), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2007)
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My Swordhand is Singing (My Swordhand is Singing #1) Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages
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Title:My Swordhand is Singing (My Swordhand is Singing #1)
Author:Marcus Sedgwick
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 224 pages
Published:October 9th 2007 by Wendy Lamb Books (first published July 25th 2006)
Categories:Young Adult. Horror. Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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. From the Hardcover edition.

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The premise is pretty good. We have a small town in Eastern Europe sometime maybe in the 1800s and they have a dark secret. And our hero is an outsider, so he's sort of learning about this secret along with the reader.However, it was kind of slow, which was okay. The tension was pretty good in the book, and I wanted to know what happened next. I have to say I was disappointed, though, by the way things wrapped up. It felt very anticlimactic.The biggest problem I had with the book was a sliding

May I invite you to take a quick look at the nicely-designed creepy cover art and the cool title. Then turn the book over and read the blurb about father and son who live in the woods everyday the father digs a channel around their hut without telling his son why and he also keeps a mysterious old box whose contents the son is forbidden to know. Sounds dark and scary? well, turns out it's a YA book. I was expecting good old horror goriness but instead I got coming-of-age and cute illustrations.

I have become a bit cynical lately concerning the vampire story. To me, is has been overflated, becoming a punchline to a really bad joke. MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING added little to the pantheon of vampire stories, but it did leave this reader feeling as Mr. Sedwick was going somewhere with this world of his. Granted, the ending did little to affirm that he stands alone as King of Vampire Mountain. But, the way he told his story impacted me. Sure cliches abound. But what he does with the cliches

A delightful little novella that calls to mind earlier, darker Grimm's fairy tales before they were sanitized for children's consumption. Sedgwick plays with old European superstitions remarkably well and I was reading this I thought how wonderfully this would do as a dark fairy tale movie that's become so popular these days a la Snow White and the Huntsman, only done much better. I think a good comparison to this novella would be as the young adult version of Angela Carter's excellent feminist

I am glad I read this book because it was pretty far out of my comfort zone. I don't usually read horror, but when I do I like it to be imbued with place and history and well written and this was that. It's a book about a tiny secluded village, a couple of misfits who live on the outskirts of it (geographically and metaphorically) and a sudden plague of undead that try to overrun the village. The actual vampire/zombie invasion is very gradually and carefully plotted with just enough detail given

This story of evil in a bewintered peasant village harkens back to traditional vampire lore, stripping away modern accretions of sexiness and glamor. Its strongest aspect, however, is not the supernatural element but the effective depiction of early modern life: fragile and bleak, fraught with danger, and controlled by peer pressure and folk practices.

Real rating: 3.75 starsA great quick read... Very well-written and I really enjoyed it!