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Today is one of those days, when I go totally silent as I hear the echoes of divine within. Those blasting their ears with music will never know of the peace that could only be found in this deepening silence as they come in waves, each one deeper than the other. Before you even realize, you must have sunk so deep that you are utterly disconnected from the physical world. You have stepped into another - calm, peace, tranquil...
Random Xpressions
DAWNING TIDES. ✧ ─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ
Walter Launt Palmer, Silent Dawn, 1919, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Early morning walk
DOGBONE. （＾・ω・＾✿）
Wave 1 is Now Closed!!
Thank you to those that have joined us for the very first wave of Silent Dawn! Keep an eye on our Tumblr for moments from the RP, art, and more! The opening for Wave 2 will most likely be announced later this year!
Book: Silent Dawn: First Half by Pono Freedom
Rating: 2.5/5
Silent Dawn: First Half, is the first book in the Beyond Chronicles by Pono Freedom. The book follows a young man, cursed with the name Paun Traitorson because of the sins of his father. Paun is desperate to get his true name back and believes that finding the elusive Prism Shards and destroying them is the way to do it. Along the way he meets new friends, and new enemies, that make his quest even more personal. The whole book is dictated by an Oather, who is a narrator of sorts, and wants to record Paun's journey as accurate as possible but finds this increasingly more difficult as they grow attached to the characters as each chapter goes by.
The writing style of Silent Dawn: First Half similar in nature to Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events books or Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimans Good Omens. By having a narrator and footnotes it gives the reader a surprising experience of observing an observer. There is a really nice map drawn of the world at the beginning of the book, which is copied (with slight edits) between chunks of the story to help the reader visualise where they are and points of interest for the story so far. A fun theme in this book is the characters' self awareness of various media tropes and how their own lives fit into them. They almost break the fourth wall to say to the Oather, “really? You want us to fall into THAT cheesy trope?”. The author also uses spelling to emphasise each character’s accents which is a really nice touch.
You can tell that there has been a lot of thought put into the world building of this book, including creating several new languages and detailed descriptions on how the world works at the end of the ‘story’. An interesting point is that even though this world is more fantastical, it started as some believe ours did. With the Christian God creating man and The Garden of Eden. This world however, seemed to have benefited from Eve not being banished from the Garden.
That being said, there are alot of spelling/grammatical errors (not including the accents mentioned above) and instances where the author squishes far too many words into one sentence and half the time these extra words have contradictory meanings. I also had a problem with the footnotes being at the end of each chapter instead of the bottom of the page they are indicated. I found myself either flicking back and forth to find what the extra information was (which isn't easy to do on an e-reader) or waiting to read them until the end of the chapter and completely forgetting where it was referenced in the first place. Additional editing would bump this story up to the next level and I am interested to see where the Second Half takes us!
SAFEWORD. ♪♪♪ ヽ(･ˇ∀ˇ･ゞ)
