Love Bytes reads the A Walk on the Wild Side Daily Dose from Dreamspinner Press!
For the whole month of June there will be a daily review featuring one of the stories from this new collection.
At the end of the month there will be one grand prize winner who will receive the COMPLETE Collection!!
Make sure to let us know what you think of them to enter the amazing giveaway!
DAY 3
Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Putting Down Roots
SERIES: A Walk on the Wildside (Daily Dose 2016)
AUTHOR: Tam MacNeil
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 33 Pages
RELEASE DATE: June 01, 2016
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At twenty-nine, Mark is lonely and unhappy. With his teaching degree, he never expected to be scraping by at a dead-end job in a bookstore. So when he’s given the opportunity to do the work he’s always dreamed of, he jumps on it.
But there’s a catch. Mark has just agreed to spend the summer teaching a recalcitrant student at a lonely manor outside the most haunted village in the UK. It doesn’t take Mark long to figure out there’s something strange, really strange, about Thomas, his host and the father of his pupil. They say the village changes people, and it turns out Thomas is living proof. Now Mark has to decide if he should run like hell or stay and become part of the family.
REVIEW:
I really enjoyed this short story. The main character, Mark, has been working in a shop, but can’t wait to get away to teach a student for the summer. The student Bryony, is the only daughter of a wealthy man in the small town of Atley, rumored to be the most haunted village in the UK.
What will Mark find when he arrives? The student seems less than welcoming, but the father is all that and more, in Mark’s opinion. Why do the rumors persist that something about Atley changes you if you stay too long, and why is Mark cautioned to never go outside after dark??
As I said above, I enjoyed it. It is a story about a type of shifter that I hadn’t read in this genre before, and was glad to see. This is the type of shifter that I’ve always dreamed of becoming since I read a mainstream fantasy that included this type years ago.
No more spoilers. This one is worth a read, so pick it up!
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I like unusual shifters, so this should be fun!
Thank you for your review, hmm I wonder what shifter he is? Thanks for the giveaway chance, as I would love to read this one 🙂
Oh! this sounds like a mixture of shifter and gothic tale, what with the isolated manor and haunted village…. I’m so sure I’m going to love this one! 😉
Tam McNeil sounds like an author to follow. Love all the elements of mystery included… such a sense of eeriness.
Mark is a relatable character. Thank you for the review! Definitely a story I’ll like to check out.