![]() Daniel is a fresh take on LGTBQIA+ youth representation who many readers will gravitate to he is relatable without being stereotypical and his story is one young adults will want to read. It is a very keen move to draw that line very cleanly. "Ellzey’s novel is a sensitive story from a gifted writer.While the book has some triggering content, such as suicide attempts and mental illness, the author never equates Daniel’s mental struggles to his sexuality. There is no magical solution…An ultimately uplifting story that does not shy away from the discomfort of reality." – Kirkus Reviews, In real life, Daniel is a junior at Cranbrook Prep in Southern California, having transferred to the school for a fresh start following a suicide attempt over the summer… The portrayals of mental illness and trauma recovery are handled honestly and sensitively. There are no strict, distant parents in Neverland, no homophobic classmates, no pressure for him to be someone he isn’t. "In his daydreams, Daniel, who is White and Korean, is the confident leader of the Lost Boys who spends his days seeking treasure and battling Captain Hook. Or maybe Jiwon is the one who will finally break Daniel free.Ĭontent warning: Emotional trauma, attempted suicide, mental illness. He meets Jiwon Yoon-another cross-country runner, who may be the first person to join Daniel in his Neverland daydreams. But when he joins Cranbrook Preparatory’s cross-country team, he starts to feel like he’s walking on his own two feet once again. Thrust into a mental health hospital and then into a brand-new high school, he struggles to hold on to reality while haunted by both his very-present past and his never-present parents. After jumping off the roof of his house in the middle of the night, Daniel Kim wakes up far from Neverland, his reprieve from the real world. From the Berserker stories of Viking fame, to the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, to the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, to the seven-tailed fox woman tale of ancient Japan.It all began with trying to fly. ![]() The werebeast sections, while paying homage to the popular werewolf, looks at the phenomenon from the perspective of any tale involving man turning into beast. Instead, the other explores those vampire legends outside the norm, what Eastern and Eastern European cultures considered a vampire and how they dealt with them. ![]() Unlike the other volumes, this one at least brings in tales from outside of Europe, so it isn’t a retelling of Dracula and other well-known vampire and werewolf tropes. The last pair of chapters discuss tales of vampires and lycanthropes respectively. It isn’t until Chapters 3 and 4 - “Blood Feasts of the Damned” & “The Way of the Werebeast” - that the books takes on an identity of its own. Of the monsters which feed on fear and bring nightmares into the world. It focuses on nightly ghost visitations of specters, demon imps, and various other bogarts determined to spellbind men, and either steal their souls or semen. It opens with the tale of Beowulf - much more entertaining than the original Beowulf text - and fills the pages with brave heroes who were forced to face and destroy some random spawn of chaos.Ĭhapter 2 - “Visitations from the Realms of Shadow” - on the other hand, seems to be formed from leftover tales from volume 4 Ghosts. In fact the first chapter, “Perilous Paths through the Dark” seems as if it were being used for all the stories left out, for space reasons, from the previous volume Legends of Valor. Here they take it to contain any old tale about a creature which lurks by night. The topic of this volume, Night Creatures, is upon reflection a fairly broad brush.
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