Genre:
Horror/Short Story/YA
Description:
“There
is something wrong with Cambria's new babysitting job when she gets
drawn into a little girl's game of pulling faces—with no one.
Cambria's simple world begins to fragment. It all starts when you tie
the knot.”
Author:
“Angela
Yuriko Smith publishes a bi-monthly online newspaper by day
(PanhandleFocus.com), blogs at Dandilyon Fluff (dandifluff.com) by
night and writes fiction as often as possible in between.
Her
published works include fiction and nonfiction across multiple genres
and she has been included in various anthologies and online
publications.”
Appraisal:
Imagine
the scary stories that kids often tell, sometimes while sitting
around a campfire or anywhere with a dark, spooky vibe. Often it's
about the “haunted house” down the street. The
Braid reminds me a lot of
those stories, minus the atmosphere of the dark and spooky night with
the breeze rustling the leaves, but told much better with time for
more detail than the best childhood storyteller could pull off. All
that's missing is a friend jumping out from the dark and screaming to
scare you at the climax.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues.
Rating:
**** Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 3-4,000 words
2 comments:
Thank you for the fantastic review! It's a thrill and a privilege to be included on Big Al's Books and Pals :) I've been reading your reviews for years so I really had to do a double take when I realized this was my book. Thank you again!
You're welcome, Angela.
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