Today’s
Wednesday Wonders features the Young Adult novel, Bearskin, by Jamie Robyn Wood.
About the Book:
When
Conrad, Moiria, and Heppson's evil enchantress mother tries to convince them to
follow her dark ways, they must each decide where the line lies between good
and evil, magic and mythology. Based on a lesser-known fairy tale, this young
adult book features an impossible romance, an intricate plot, and twists you
won't see coming.
Moiria never meant to use the knife her mother offered, but now her life depends on her continued and defensive ruthlessness. Is it possible to reclaim the motivation that initially set her on this path of destruction? Can Moiria recapture the heart and soul she’s lost to her mother’s evil? Only forest journeys, desert passages, and an encounter with a magical Bear – and his Bearskin – can possibly bring it right again.
Excerpt:
The Queen seeks only for power.
The brothers stumble in their
rivalry for the throne.
And so the sister, normally
hidden in the shadows, finds herself driven to take control.
Moiria never meant to use the knife her mother offered, but now her life depends on her continued and defensive ruthlessness. Is it possible to reclaim the motivation that initially set her on this path of destruction? Can Moiria recapture the heart and soul she’s lost to her mother’s evil? Only forest journeys, desert passages, and an encounter with a magical Bear – and his Bearskin – can possibly bring it right again.
Excerpt:
It happened when the summer days drifted haltingly away –
time passing, as it always does. The coolness of autumn arrived. He first saw
her bundled form where she curled to sleep near the shuttered and fading light
of a heap of night-curtained logs. Heppson found he could not help but stay to
watch her, this human girl he’d discovered within his forest. The hours of his
time as human silently slipped past him while his gaze took in her, hungry for
the kind of life she lived.
A human. A girl. And one quite near his age, it would seem.
Sleeping right there, in his empty, mindless forest. As though such an act were
normal and of everyday occurrence. As though young girls with long manes of
flame often traveled alone and slept beside half-collapsed fires.
Captured by the simple, inescapable fact of her existence;
captured by her humanity; Heppson paused his aimless night-time wanderings and
– almost hypnotized – watched her breathe. He watched her sleep. He watched the
embers of her fire as they glowed against her pressed-closed eyes and
wrapped-tight self. When morning came – and with it Bear – he managed to make
himself slink away, if only because he promised himself he would find her again
when night returned, and she slept once more beneath the open air.
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About the Author:
Jamie Robyn Wood is a
full-time wife and mother, and a part-time fantasy 
writer and essayist. Over
the years she has handed out money at banks, taught ballet, and managed to make
dinner for her family semi-regularly. Jamie never imagined the wind could blow
so hard and so cold until she moved to the Midwest. Now she prefers to hunker
inside the house with a story to write. Bearskin is her first
novel. She, her husband, their five children, and their “pet” squirrels
currently reside in Coralville, Iowa.
writer and essayist. Over
the years she has handed out money at banks, taught ballet, and managed to make
dinner for her family semi-regularly. Jamie never imagined the wind could blow
so hard and so cold until she moved to the Midwest. Now she prefers to hunker
inside the house with a story to write. Bearskin is her first
novel. She, her husband, their five children, and their “pet” squirrels
currently reside in Coralville, Iowa.
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