Title: Fountain Dead by Theresa Braun
Expected Publication Date: 20th November 2018
Genre: Mature YA, Horror/Paranormal
Description:
Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past.
Of course, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house’s dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history. As romantic entanglements intensify, the paranormal activity escalates. Past and present come together. Everything is connected—from the bricks in the walls to the hearts beating in their chests, all the secrets of Fountain Dead are finally unearthed.
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Review:
Forced to move by his parents to a new town, to a new house is probably every teenagers nightmare but that’s just the beginning for Mark. He knows there’s something not right with the house, especially the basement and the neglected fountain outside but his parents ignore his pleas.
As ghostly visions and strange things start happening in the house, Mark must delve into the past and uncover the house’s secrets.
I want to reiterate the fact this is definitely the more mature end of the YA spectrum with plenty of mature themes and gruesome scenes that are not suitable for younger readers.
There are two timelines in the story, the first is Mark back in the eighties and the other is Emma eighteen sixties. While both timelines seem really well researched, I have to be honest I preferred the eighties timeline mainly because I actually got some of the reference, yay!
Both Emma and Mark well really well drawn characters, in a way I felt they were coming of age within the story. Emma wants nothing more than to become a teacher and get away from her horrible father and brother. She also quite a feisty character, gambling when it was frowned upon for women and she’s crack shot with a pistol. Mark is a little more sensitive, a bit angry, and is trying to figure out who he really is.
The problem I did have was keeping each timeline straight in my head, because of the back and forth between the two eras but that’s probably more to do with my terrible memory than the actual book!
Fountain Dead is that combines the supernatural with teenage angst to create a spooky, if not slightly gruesome, read.
Hmmm. What’s this? Looks like Ms. Braun left her computer on and her Goodreads bio open.
This should be fun.
What can we say about Theresa? I mean other than the fact that she’s weirdly obsessed with smiley faces :-). Like, seriously obsessed >:-*. It’s kinda scary :-O.
I think she thinks she’s from Renaissance England or Venice or something. I never could figure out which one it was. (She’s really bad at doing accents.)
She likes romance novels and crime TV, which are pretty much the same thing when you think about it. Ha! Am I right?
She has a hell of a singing voice. Seriously. It’s, like, seventh circle of hell bad.
She likes editing. A lot. Just wait till she get’s a load a this.
Cats. Shoes. Chips and salsa. In that order.
Yeah, that last part didn’t make sense to me either.
Website: https://www.theresabraun.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tbraun_author
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theresa.braun.9
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Great review Lorna! Thanks for taking the time to read it and for hosting today!
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You’re welcome 😊
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Although not in the tour, i am currently reading this one aswell!!
I gotta say I find myself lost between the two storylines at some points too – im about halfway still, but quite often I find myself not understanding a word (im french first, and being YA i wouldve thought it wouldve been easier to read..)
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I completely understand what you mean! The use of old fashioned language in both timelines, while it fits perfectly with each era, does make it harder to read. Honestly if I hadn’t have been told it was YA I personally would have classed it as historical fiction or just horror.
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