Zoe Brooks
When Zoe was a little girl her inventor father taught her to "look at things another way", while her mother taught her to see dragons in the shapes of natural things. Zoe is still practicing what she was taught.As a result Zoe is an award-winning British writer and poet. She spends half her life...
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When Zoe was a little girl her inventor father taught her to "look at things another way", while her mother taught her to see dragons in the shapes of natural things. Zoe is still practicing what she was taught.As a result Zoe is an award-winning British writer and poet. She spends half her life in a partly-restored old farmhouse in the Czech Republic, where she writes all her novels and poetry.Zoe aims to write popular books that have complex characters and themes that get under the reader's skin. She finds her experience of working with people on the edge of society an inspiration for her fiction.She has a liking for books where fantasy and reality meet. Her favorite writers include Ursula Le Guin, Hilary Mantel, Angela Carter and Andrei Makine. Her favorite books include Jane Eyre, The Hummingbird's Daughter, The Earthsea Quartet and Nights at the CircusTo find out more please read Zoe's blog on http://zoebrooks.blogspot.com. Zoe also has a book review blog, which focuses on magic realism books - http://www.magic-realism.net.
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Birth date: September 06
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This week, you get a three-fer -- mainly because I had all three books in the Healer's Shadow series and once I'd finished the first one, I just kept reading 'til I'd read the whole thing.This series of books in the genre of magic realism follows the tale of Judith and her Shadow, Sarah. When we fir...
Zoe Brooks', The Girl in the Glass, is a gripping tale. It begins with Anya and Eva (her Shadow) who are enslaved by the dark power of a deranged aunt. They escape with their lives but eventually fall prey to an evil misogynist. There is a constant battle between the intellect (Eva), and the emotion...
I received a copy of this book for an honest review.Love of Shadows is Zoe Brooks' second volume of her Healer's Shadow Trilogy, and an absolute page-turner. Judith is no longer the sexually exploited young Anya we see in the first book. She has blossomed into a trained perfume maker who uses men to...
The Girl in the Glass is a sweeping romance of a coming of age story that follows the trials and tribulations of heroine Anya (Judith) as she struggles to overcome great obstacles in a journey that is physical, emotional, and spiritual. Anya is orphaned at a young age—merely eleven and left to live ...
What were the main themes of the book? How well did the author execute these themes? The central themes of this book are healing and acceptance. Acceptance played a key role in the plight of healers. They needed to be accepted by society but more importantly, they need to accept themselves. Describe...
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