Nanowrimo '17

So it is that time of the year, November. 50 000 words to beat. What a challenge. It surprised me this year completely, sneaking on me. I haven't created idea or anything and now as trying to put all stuff up I have two options. I could start my nano camp idea from scrap or then start new story about new marriage and relationships and catholic boarding school and it's mysteries. I am worried that I will get bored with this one soon. As I haven't had time to plan it long enough so I am probably gonna go with nano camp idea about Moon and Sun and their doomed children.

I am just scared of time and motivation and energy to write as I have been lately so tired and my life is messy right now. I know that I can write 50K in two weeks if I just get inspired and story takes me away with it. So I am not giving up on this one. I could try both ideas and see what will get me going.

I think I need to get creative writer to get myself escape my real life for while in my own worlds. I haven't written a word yet but I shall stay confident. Let's be brave together!

Prologue

I decided to give you prologue of my nano camp novel though I do not know if it suits as one really as there is chapter before this but I haven't decided does it belong to novel in the end or was that just some stuff that I wrote just to get started. Maybe I will use some of that stuff into this prologue what I think is important or maybe this is then Chapter one. Anyway, here it is. 

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I was so sure about my decision, my judgement and punishment when I gave it to them. I thought that they would grow wiser and see what I wanted them to learn. All those Gods playing with their creations and children were merely pawns to their ultimate game plan, made for their image to worship their origins. Problem was with these two that they had separated their offspring in two teams. Sure they had different tasks for the world that they didn’t even create. It was my creation. It was my playground and I had been graceful enough to let them join in that playground keeping myself hidden, anonymous to them. As they had their purpose. One gave light and warmth at the daytime and gave good grounds for life, so did another one give light and serenity in the night time with her children so that there was nothing to be feared. Then there were seasons and their own little offspring that made weather and so on. It was all very beautiful and organized. I was happy very long time with all of this and I made my own little race to care about, humans. As I was wise enough to see that mortality may be blessing and it gives another kind of excitement to immortal kind. They show as passion, forgiveness, shame, love, sorrow in very different form. But before them my creation, my world was playground or should I say paradise to immortals. But it isn’t rare that in among immortals and their offspring there comes quarrel and discord between them and Sun and Moon were very different personalities altogether and I saw that it may become problem in time but I didn’t want to interfere. So I just watched as their offspring started to envy each other, compete against each other and oh how Moon and Sun loved that rivalry they had caused for them to enjoy. It was like soap opera and in the mean time they had time to snap at each other, they made their love poisonous. 

It all leaded to that fatal day when one of the Stars, Spica killed that poor innocent fairy princess by accident. But what I noticed and which alarmed me was lack of guilt she had. She was sorry for Chanda, the man she adored and loved as she knew that their fatal love story had just got killing strike by her actions but otherwise she was like her mother, cold and cruel and thought she was not to blame. Have to say, in the way she wasn’t, it was her parents fault in the end but this action made marks that will never heal. It was sign for me to start plan my actions as peace was lost and war begun. Sun hunted stars on the sky and cursed his wife. Moon commanded her offspring to revenge Sun’s wrathful vendetta. Fairies were the ones to pay the price of this massacre. 

I couldn’t watch it any longer, the whole world I had built for my children was about to burn to ashes and balance was lost. It was chaos that I couldn’t endure any longer. I didn’t want to banish Moon and Sun from my universe as they had their purpose in it so I had to make them learn their lesson by what they loved the most, by their children. Their children had to teach them that lesson and learn in same time to see the whole picture and have mercy on each other. 

I condemned Sun’s little sunshine’s to worship Moon as werewolves who gain their power to change their form by the Moon. Moon’s beloved Stars in other hand was cursed into vampires, those blood thirsty creatures that are powerful in the night time and Sun had to endure them in daylight but they were weak like mortals under the Sun, to feel his wrath and to be obedient and graceful to the Sun if wanting any favors from him. It was announced and put into action straight away. Their children lost their home by their parents and they lost their connection to the Moon and the Sun. Only I was there to deliver messages I saw necessary. For that purpose I originally created witches, mortals who had little amount of stardust or suns and on them accidentally so to speak. 

I thought this was good teaching lesson to them but I might have been awfully wrong after what happened next. I pray that the conclusion will play out well eventually or I have been the one to condemn my mortal offspring to their own doom without having any part on that tragedy. The story begins and I am watchful and patient as ever to see this play to go on it’s own course. 

This is my prologue to you dear readers. Show has begun.

Time is running out

“Tell me the story about how the Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.”

So it begins. Nano Camp. It is kind of irritating how little time I have to plan upcoming project and also knowing how little time I will have for writing irritates me as well but I have already won two nanowrimos and hit 50K mark in two weeks so I know that it isn't impossible to get anywhere if I want to. I made my goal 40K, I may change it but it gives me some time to lose by other stuff. I would love to challenge myself and put it 100K but I think my novel idea isn't now steady enough to get to that amount of words even as my idea is huge enough to have contuinity for next nano. I don't know, should I choose something that I will surely achieve or should I aim for the stars and accept that I might fail? 

So my Nano camp title is Our decades in the Sun. It is song by Nightwish and it kind of hit me. Myths and stories about Moon has always interested me and Hijo De La Luna song has haunted long time to be included in my stories. Earliest idea was about angels and demons, how son of the moon was the key to open hell's gates and fallen angels searched for this key. Well it didn't go further very much and I already have my own angel plot idea growing so why mix anymore these two.

As I have written down earlier how my two earlier novel's has been human only novels and 2015 nano was project which had roots very far away unlike last year's nano was something new. So I think it is good to take some ideas and inspiration from my past and make new receipt. So my story has Moon and Sun as lovers and stars and sunshine's/sun rays are their children.

A Native American myth says that the sun and moon are a chieftain and his wife and that the stars are their children. The sun loves to catch and eat his children, so they flee from the sky whenever he appears. The moon plays happily with the stars while the sun is sleeping. But each month, she turns her face to one side and darkens it (as the moon wanes) to mourn the children that the sun succeeded in catching.

Sun favors sunshine's and Moon stars obviously. But as Sun is short tempered and unforgiving character with really exploding anger tantrums and Moon in other hand was cold and cruel and thoughtless, their relationship was far from happiness and happily ever afters. Their children compete for their attention and love and they were like mirror of their parents as they were destructive to each other as much as they tried to love and have peace. Power more powerful than Moon and Sun decided to punish them or more likely to get them learn their lesson and find peace and cursed their children to bear their parent's wrong doings. That is how vampires and werewolves came to be. And it doesn't seem that they are redeeming their parents anytime soon.

So that is what I am working here. It still has lots of gaps and planning to be done but I think it will be good and fruitful to me as I have hoped my chance to get back to vampires and now as reading Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire and been watching True blood almost five seasons, I am inspired to get back to those creatures and there are new twists in them. You will see!

So happy hunting everyone, Nano Camp has begun!

Nano Camp ' 17

I didn't find motivation or time or anything for last nano camp in april so now my expectations are bigger for second round before NanoWrimo that is coming nearer and nearer. I have lots of ideas but how hard it is to find inspiration to get it done. My angels and demons which was supposed to be last year's nano project is still waiting to be done but maybe this year I will get excited about them.

But I have been writing already two nano's with humans only scenario. I loved my first nanowrimo winning novel in 2016 as that project had lived so many phases and lives and it kind of lived it's own life and I think if I would start it again, it would go totally different path again. It has not ending yet so there is chance to continue with those characters, even as I feel like the spark that made me love that story has already been told. But it can wait there that I find ending to it or even sequel. 

Last year's nanowrimo novel which also won was kind of inspirited by Gatsby and fifty shades of grey, yeah I know that book and movie series sucked but I wanted to create something even better. It had ending but it is open for sequels as well. Though I didn't get too keen to those characters and that novel definitely needs re-write before moving on I have planned to combine those too nano novels together somehow, I actually have idea, it is megalomanic though as it would be telling multiple character stories in little town. But maybe I will do that one day as well.

It isn't my project next month as I have decided to return to one of my most loved characters in the whole universe, vampires. And werewolves. This story has it's inspiration from True blood little bit as I have been watching that series now like maniac and also I would think that all those vampire books I have read, mostly by Anne Rice will give me some inspiration to go on. But also now I have chance to do one idea I had long time ago finally in paper in different form. As I am always loved tales about Moon and the Sun. And Hijo de la Luna song inspirited me once to create novel idea. Now plot is totally different and characters but still I can use some of that little novel idea to it. I am happy about that. So we will have Sun, Moon and vampires and werewolves. 

I am thrilled what kind of story this shall be and will it have sequel as my nanowrimo project or something else. There is so much to write about and history and elements that I think I won't get everything done in one month. So maybe I should think that I will write middle part now and then I can write prologue and ending another time. 

Writing is one of my dearest passions and I think it is time to enjoy that progress as movies and TV series has taken their share. And then I need to find time for reading!

Little piece of writing

Star crossed lovers, my nano15:

For next weeks she could read from the newspapers or watch news all about her getting found. McGregor’s situation came up and there was gossip and analyzing did they actually had planned to kidnap some baby after theirs died and there was all facts about this new biological family. She had been told that she had two years older big brother Rick who studied psychology in Harvard and she had 1,5 years younger little sister Lucy who studies at home with governess. She had been told that Lucy’s hobbies were figure skating and riding. Her grandmother was editor in chief in Vogue and grandfather was teacher in Harvard. 

She was full of information about her so called parents who seemed to get in her face in every corner. Everyone tried to get her talk and take contact on her family. But there was no getting forward with her. 

Chad was sitting in nearby cafe drinking tea, cursing Brits and their stupid tea culture. Man who passed him dropped newspaper on his table and he saw familiar face in front page. He looked at the picture long enough to really let it sink in. Newspaper seemed to be few months old. Scarlett was standing in the middle with two adults with same old empty look in her face. Story revealed that those adults were her biological parents. 

“Hey Mark! What’s up? Do you know where the Porter’s family lives whose daughter was found?” Chad asked calling to his old buddy in America.

“Hello old buddy! They live in Florida, bloody elitists”, Mark replied.

“Oh, do you know how has their daughter settled in?” Chad asked curiously. Mark laughed.

“Really sad case. She is in mental hospital because she won’t talk to anyone. Totally empty paper they say”, Mark said. 

“She is in Tampa. It seems that she have had really hard childhood in there if she is so fucked up case. Parents must wish now that they wouldn’t even found her or at least put her down from her misery”, Mark laughed. Chad quit the call. Mark was just one fucked up case, he talked about humans like animals sometimes, so like him. 

Chad took next flight to Tampa smiling pleased at himself. If he could rub this on Lisa’s face he would. When he arrived to Tampa he contacted his old contacts and got himself cleaning job from same department where Scarlett was. He went and took room in hotel and smiled. Three months separated from her had been such tormenting experience and he hoped that it would have been the same to her.

Scarlett walked to dining room to eat her morning porridge and watch under her messy hair outside. It was hot and unpleasantly sweaty as always. She glanced around her sitting patients whom seemed to get better every day. She ate fast and went then to library room to read Jane Austen’s Pride and prejudice. She had decided to use her time her to literature as there was small amount of choices what here in mental hospital could do. Other patients left usually outside after breakfast but she didn’t want to so she just stayed reading her romance books. She listened music same time so she didn’t hear when someone entered the room. She jumped in horror when someone touched her elbow and let scream come out of her mouth. She was staring directly at Chad from the floor.She threw her book in his face and ran straight away to nearest bathroom which was only place that could be locked. 

In little while doctor was knocking the door and asking her to come out or they would break in. She opened door and ran to her room without any conversation with anyone why she was so shocked.

In the night she was lying wide awake in her bed of course she was heavily medicated but she resisted falling into sleep as long as she could. Reason why sneaked in the room after midnight. 

“Haven’t you missed me at all?” Chad asked purring and sat in her bed touching her face softly. 

“No”, she replied disgusted. That was first time in her time in hospital she spoke.

“You want to stay here rest of your life playing mute little girl then?” he asked smirking.

“Maybe. I was safe here this long from you and from disappointments”, she said. Chad chuckled. 

“New family full of expectations. They must pity you like rest of the world does. Little filthy childwhore. Your reputation has been ruined already in the media and social networks so how could nobody love you like I would?” Chad talked quietly to her. 

“Well I feel loved nevertheless”, she claimed.

“I think my family must love me if they are trying to get me help”, she continued.

“Oh, you want to think it that way. I think this is just good place to lock you up away from their sight and from everyone else so they don’t have to live in shame if you would be out there. Everyone would gossip about you just like they do now”, Chad talked cunningly. 

“I think that they wish that they wouldn’t ever find you”, he added.

“So I am only one who can understand and love you as you are”, he said.

“I rather rot here than be with you”, she hissed. 

“I think you will change your mind eventually. I have all the time in the world”, Chad promised before leaving.

   After week she started to greet nurses and doctors. It was her little start to build connection to them but if she tried to go further she would get panic attack. Chad’s words actually haunted her in every conversation she started. Every night Chad came to her and put those nasty thought in her head how now one here cared about her and everyone thought she was just nuisance. In couple weeks she wrote letter to her family and told that she couldn’t be nuisance to them and weight on their shoulders. She told that she would be fine and maybe someday she could contact them if fate would be good to them. After that she left with Chad. Of course she would have been saved if she would have given chance to her family and hospital’s stuff and built up her trust on them. She would have been saved from Chad if she would have just told everyone who he really was. But he had power over her and she believed his lies. 

They got to his motel and tried to figure out their next move. She would be in news again and police would start searching as soon as her disappearance would be notified.

“We can’t stay in America, they would find you”, Chad said.

“Why? If they do not want me why they would bother to find me?” she demanded to know.

“Well they have to for public appearances”, Chad said.

“But I know where we can go to wait this situation to settle down”, he said dragging her along to his car and they drove many days. 

“My family lives in Amish society. We can stay there for while I think until we can fly away”, Chad told her while they were having breakfast in some hostel. Scarlett almost choked in her morning tea. Chad looked nervous, kind of shamed and afraid which was unfamiliar states of mind to her. Chad was afraid to return his home for some reason.

“You are part of Amish society or more likely you were part of it? You told that you don’t have family”, she said.

“I don’t tell truth always do I? Who wants to reveal to be part of that society if you have left it behind?” he asked.Scarlett admitted that she wouldn’t promote to be Amish in his case. They stayed out of technology and all that, weird people. 

“Why on Earth would I want to go there?” she asked then looking really reluctant to accept it.

“Just for a while, sweetheart. I don’t want to go there any longer than must. There is no porn God’s sake”, Chad said. She snorted.

NanoWrimo 2016

Jo toinen vuosi kun voitan kyseisen novellin kirjoituskilpailun. Lyhenne NanoWrimo tarkoittaa Nathional writing month. Olen ollut jäsen jo 8 vuotta ja nyt olen löytänyt itsestäni voimaa ja itsevarmuutta jahdata tuota taianomaista 50, 000 sanan maalia. Viime vuonna sain lähes 70,000 sanaa kasaan noin parissa viikossa ja nyt meni 11 päivää saavuttaa 50, 000 ja novelli sai päätöksen noin 60, 000 sanaan. Olen iloinen molemmista saavutuksista. 

Viime vuonna päädyin hahmoihin ja taustoihin jotka olleet läsnä vuosikausia erilaisissa tarinoissa ja nettiroolipeleissä, ainoa muutos oli että päähahmoni Alexandre McGregor muuttui Scarlett McGregoriksi ja sitä myöten myös hahmo muuttui kovasti toisenlaiseksi mutta nyt hahmot löysi oikeanlaisen tarinan jolla he matkasivat maaliin, tosin tarina on yhä keskeneräinen ja odottaa jatkoa joko samaiseen novelliin tai yhteen projektiini jonne tämänkin vuoden hahmot saattavat eksyä jos en halua erillistä jatko-osaa tehdä molempiin. Tämä yhdistävä projekti on haastavampi koska siinä kerrotaan useiden hahmojen tarinaa osittain, mutta se olisi erilainen projekti joka voi jatkua ties kuinka kauan kun hahmoja tulee ja menee. Sekin voi toki muuttua radikaalisti eri ympäristöön. 

Viime vuoden novelli Star crossed lovers oli minulle tunnerikas kokemus nauruineen ja itkuineen ja elävöitti minut heidän seikkailuihinsa. Tänä vuonna novellini An affair to remember seikkaili uusien hahmojen kanssa ja tiedän että novelli tarvitsee jatkossa 1-3 uusintoa saadakseen lopullisen muotonsa ehkä jopa eri päätöksellä, mutta pidän luomuksestani epätäydellisenäkin romanttisena draamana jossa seikkailevat Aensworthin riitaantuneet veljekset ja heidän yhteinen romanttinen kiinnostuksen kohde, Lucrecia Moonbell.  Ehkä joskus julkaisen näitä novelleja luettavaksi teille. 

Laitan alle pätkän novellin alusta, en ensimmäistä lukua koska se on suomeksi ja haluan pätkän olevan kielellä jolla muu novelli on kirjoitettu.

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It is second year as I win this particular novel writing competition. Short term NanoWrimo comes from words National writing month that takes place in every November. I have been member eight years already and now I have found from myself strength and confidence to hunt that magical 50, 000 words goal. Last year I got almost 70, 000 word written in about two weeks and now I hit 50K in eleven days and my novel had it's end in almost 60K. I am so happy about both of those victories.

Last year I ended up with characters and backgrounds that has been present to me for years in my youth in different settings and stories and internet role play games. Only change was that Alexandre McGregor turned out to be Scarlett McGregor which changed this main character much different but now my characters found rightful storyline to follow and they got to the finish line. Story is still unfinished though and waits for sequel in that same novel or in one of my other projects where my this year's nano characters might end up too if I do not want to make sequels in both novels differently. This uniting project would be more challenging as there we follow multiple character's lives in parts but it would be very different kind of project to me that could go on and on as characters comes and goes. It can change also rapidly in totally different setting.

Last year's novel Star crossed lovers was to me very emotional experience with laughs and cries and enlivened me into their adventures. This year's novel An affair to remember adventured with new character's lives and I know it need few times to overwrite it to get it's final form maybe even with different ending but I like my creation even as incomplete form of creation of romantic drama where adventures Aensworth's disputing brothers and their mutual love interest Lucrecia Moonbell. Maybe sometime I will publish these novels to you to read and criticize. 

Heres piece from the beginning, not first chapter as it is still in Finnish so I prefer give you part that is in language that rest of the novel is. 

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Lucrecia stared at herself in the mirror in her bathroom, examing herself. She reminded her mother who had passed away eight years ago. She had been ten years old when her parents died in that terrible car accident. From that day on she had been raised by her grandfather Charlie who was gentleman by book. He had raised her with good manners and tight discipline. She had studied her elementary school in catholich boarding school in Florida and had just graduated from there.

She had hated it all the way as she didn't like to dress up in uniform and living in religious manners but she swallowed it all as it had been Charlie's wish that his granddaughter would be raised in same athmospere as his daughter. But Lucrecia had made him promise that after graduation she would have approval to do as she saw fit her life. Today was her birthday and her friends were going to take her to secretive glamorous party in New York.

She sighed and raised eyebrow at herself before putting towel around herself and walked into her room to select red underwear and chose then black jeans and red top. She tied her hair up and put some rock music playing as she sat down to do her make up quickly.

”Lucrecia, breakfast is ready, hurry up! You are going to miss your train soon!” Charlie shouted from the kitchen. Charlie was gentle man deep inside and had given plenty of cases to laughter in her childhood and she cherished her time with him. But she was now adult and ready to explore the world on herself without his guidance. She wanted to make mistakes, fall in love deeply with totally wrong guy and be dirty, all those things that she had been denied all these years. Well, she had few little romances in boarding school but there was so strict athmosphere that there was no room for playing around. She frowned as she remembered that time she was busted from kissing her first so called boyfriend and how she had gotten herself in detention for that. Charlie was so unhappy with her manners that she had to spend amost all her winter holidays inside for that mistake.

She ran to kitchen sitting down and pouring tea to Charlie's and hers cups politely.

”Good morning, Charlie! How is your morning?” she asked.

”Good morning to birthday girl and happy birthday as well indeed!” Charlie announced politely as he sat down front of her thanking then for tea.

”As every morning this far, marveously. I am going to spend this day with my gents in the club and trying not to worry about your trip to New York”, Charlie said then looking at her serious look on his face.

”Oh, you shouldn't worry about me. I am adult now and I am able to take care of myself you know. I have to learn how to cope by myself as I won't stay here forever”, she replied cheerfully.

”I know, that horrifies me nevertheless. You are adult but still so young and eager to lose your track with all this freedom”, Charlie said.

”You should be happy now as you can start your retirment without taking care of me. You have earned some peace and quiet, granpa”, she said then.

”Responsibility of you will never expire, Lucrecia. I am only one left to look after you and as long as I live I shall look after your well being. You aren't job I have been given, you are the legacy of our family”, Charlie pointed out.

”I want to make sure that your parents could be proud of you in Heaven”, he continued then. She sighed deeply. Of course he thought everything more deeper than she did. She was anxious to have her adventures without thiking about what anyone might think of it.

”I will keep that in my mind”, she answered then.

After breakfast she packed everything she needed for her trip to New York and hurried to train station after saying farewell to Charlie and getting nice amount of money as birthday gift. She was so excited that she couldn't relax at all. She called to her friend Luna who would be picking her up from train station.

”I am in the train. I am free to do whatever I want! Oh God I am going to faint soon!” she said cheerfully as Luna replied.

”Happy birthday Lucrecia! I am happy to see you again and we have tickets to most fabulous party ever! You will have so fab time with us that you won't ever return back to that small boring town!” Luna laughed.

”I am going to move away as soon as possible. Charlie thinks I should get into university and pick place that way but I think I would like to get some silly work and just have fun for while so all open for options here”, she said eagerly.

”Actually I am going to move in London after summer as my studies starts there and I have been looking for apartment that I could share with few people. If you don't feel like staying in USA you could join me”, Luna proposed suddenly totally new idea.

”Oh my God! That's brilliant idea, Luna! You know my mother and Charlie is from United kingdom and I have always dreamed of living there and get to know my roots. I have to keep that option in my mind”, she said excited. Luna giggled.

”Yeah, your accent gave you away first day we met in elementary school you know”, Luna said. They had met in elementary school while she still lived in New York. They kept contact even after she had to move away with Charlie and met every holiday.

”I will be at train station when you arrive, we will chat more then, okay?” Luna asked then.

”Defenately! See ya!” she said and closed her phone. She sighed again and looked our from the window. United Kingdom was out there waiting her to come and explore all the possibities that country has to offer and it gave her chills.

Kirjanostalgiaa I: Hevoskuiskaaja

Päätin, että kirjoittelen tänne nyt joitain kirjoituksia lukukokemuksista, kun olen aina ollut aiemmin ainakin kova lukemaan ja koska hevoset ja ratsastaminen ja hevoskirjat olivat nuoruuden hitti minulle on sopivaa että luen nyt nostalgian vuoksi Hevoskuiskaajaa vaikka kirja koskeekin suurempia teemoja kuin pelkästään hevonen. En ole lukenut muita kirjailijan teoksia, pitäisi kyllä varmaankin jotta saisi vertailu kohtaa teosten kesken kirjailijan työstä, luen nyt kuten yleensäkin englanniksi mutta lainassa on myös suomenkielinen versio kirjasta. Saa treenattua kielitaitoa kun lukee englanniksi ja suomennokset usein pilaa kuitenkin osan sanamuutoksista.

Kirjalla on myös sellainen elämää mullistava asia, kuin että siitä tehtiin elokuva jossa näin lempinaisnäyttelijäni Scarlett Johanssonin ensimmäisen kerran ja upeaa työtä tekikin nuorella ikää elokuvassa vaikka muutoin elokuva jäi aika laimeaksi versioksi kirjasta, mitäs laittaa Redfordin töihin!

Kirja kyllä on loistava ja monisävyinen kun lähdetään syventymään New yorkilaisen perheen menneisyyteen ja haavojen parantumiseen, jonka jäävuoren huippuna toimii ratsastusonnettomuus. Josta tarina lähteekin tavallaan käyntiin. Gracen äiti kokee että hevonen, Pilgrim on avain heidän kaikkien eheytymiseen. Joten matka Montanaan Hevoskuiskaajan luokse on mullistava ratkaisu isolla riskin otolla kaikkien pelastumiseen.

Kirja on antoisaa luettavaa ja eikä liian paksua luettavaa jotta joutuisi liikaa pohtimaan asian sisältöä. Löytyy niin kasvua lapsuudesta teiniyteen/aikuisuuteen kuin romantiikkaa ja hienoja hahmokuvauksia kuin maiseman kuvauksia. Ikävä kyllä loppu ei mene minun mukaani, mutta aina ei voi voittaa ellei itse kirjoita tarinaa.

Suosittelen kirjaa ihmissuhteista kiinnostuneille lukijoille, eläimistä pitäville ja romantikoille myös, kehityskaari on hyvä ja kiinnostava läpi kirjan, hahmot kasvavat kirjan mukana uuteen rooliinsa. Kestää selkeästi uusintakierroksen useampaankin otteeseen.