MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING 리뷰:
When I first found out we were reading a
vampire gothic novel for school, I immediately thought that I wouldn’t enjoy
it. I was sick of all those modern interpretations of vampires, where vampires
go to school instead of stalking the living to consume their blood, and fall in
love instead of killing them. But it turned out that the book was nothing like
that, and I loved it.
It centers around two characters, Peter and
his father, Thomas, who has only recently settled down in the outskirts of a
small town named Chust, and works as woodcutters. They have their own problems,
such as Thomas being a taciturn drunkard, and the villagers being suspicious about
them and etc., but stranger things start happening in Chust. Unusual deaths
keep happening in the village and there have been reports of dead people
revisiting their family at night. Thomas denies that he knows anything about what’s
happening, but that does not fool Peter. Helped by a young gypsy girl named
Sophia, he is determined to find out and get rid of the supernatural threat that
lurks in the woods of Chust.
Marcus Sedgewick’s My Swordhand is Singing
is a gothic horror novel that is set in Eastern Europe in around 17th
century. The fact that it is so traditional, complete with real customs and
beliefs, makes it so different from other vampire books I have read. The action
takes place during the winter, in forests and snow-covered cemeteries.
There is no love relationships between a
human and a vampire, but is a broken relationship between father and son. For
the most parts of the book, Thomas is an alcoholic who uses alcohol to drown
his sorrows, but at the end of the book, we can catch a glimpse of their love,
that we all thought was lost.
This book is heart-stopping gothic novel
that is perfectly paced and written, that includes action and at the same time,
redemption, love and loss. I was so into it.
I recommend this book to students or
children who are looking for a horror story, scary enough to be worth reading,
but without that much of gore and horror.
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