Strong as Death eBook Julia Lund
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Dark forces. Deadly intentions. Can any love be stronger?
Until she meets Dylan Lachlan, sixteen year-old Minnie Shilling has one passion – music. After a series of embarrassing encounters, Minnie believes Dylan will never notice her for the right reasons. To make things worse, she’s the only witness to a sequence of eerie incidents that convince Minnie someone is watching her. Is she losing her mind, or is something more sinister, something not from this world, stalking her? When Minnie’s life comes under threat, she must fight to discover which is stronger; a love to live for, or the darkness that will move Hell to steal her soul.
Strong as Death eBook Julia Lund
For the longest time, I could not see what Dylan could possibly see in her either — she was pathetic in his presence, stumbling over her words and any object that happened to be near. How he had the patience to deal with her self loathing, dysfunctional character was beyond me, as she wrung my patience very thin at times — but they say love is blind or maybe it sharpened his vision and helped him to see past the superficial flaws into her true character and understand the deeper strengths lying dormant under all those insecurities playing on the surface of this shy 16 year old — a young woman who eventually has to “man up”, and pull herself together to battle dark forces and demons in an attempt to overcome death in the fantastical realm of the underworld.“Strong as Death” is very well written, creative and entertaining. If you like fantasy, stories dealing with the ideas of souls, life after death, hell-like and heaven-like places, and dragonflies you will love this book. The story is an engaging tale about Minnie Shilling, an aspiring cellist, who sets eyes on Dylan Lachlanand, and falls madly in love with him, but there are evil machinations to steal her soul that promise to end their young love. As Minnie begins to sense she’s being watched, she sees mysterious creatures, and feels a dark presence she cannot explain, her dysfunctional character begins to mature when she realizes that she is not crazy — there really is a sinister darkness stalking her — a dark force that eventually drags her into the underworld.
There were many times I wondered whether Minnie’s love would really be as strong as death; especially after she entered the dark world of Thad and his demons, soul reapers, shape shifters, the labyrinth of books of dead souls, lifetellers, and the other un-worldly places she encountered in the underworld. A world that is so very imaginative and well done. Who can resist an invitation to discover places with names like the Déjà Lu, the Plain of Ethad, the dark realm of Thad, and the land beyond the Door of Lies?
While wandering the vast emptiness of the underworld, a place that’s surprisingly full of stuff, Minnie meets Mullog, a forlorn and much maligned little demon. I really loved Mullog. The idea that there can be good, even in a demon, is such a nice touch. I also really liked the relationship between Minnie and Mullog. Their ad hoc communication through her interpretation of his music was delightful. Her ability to have compassion for a demon who is despised by all the other demons demonstrated the goodness in Minnie’s heart. Her ability to set aside her fears and prejudices and befriend a lonely demon gave him a sense of happiness and purpose in his otherwise miserable life captures much of the essence of the book. I appreciated the faithfulness of the characters to each other in an age where being faithful is often non-existent.
Minnie holds on to life only through the strength of love in the face of death — “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” (Song of Songs 8:6). Can Minnie’s love continue to burn with a mighty flame? Is her love really as strong as death?
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Strong as Death eBook Julia Lund Reviews
This book is a great YA read and has a perfect blend of emotional struggle, romance and mystery.
Set against a supernatural backdrop, “Strong as Death” is Julia Lund’s beautifully written debut novel about young love and its ability to overcome darkness.
Sixteen and socially awkward, Minnie Schilling falls in love for the first time when she meets Dylan, the new boy in town. Initially, their encounters are fraught with tension for the shy Minnie and result in embarrassing social disasters. Despite Minnie’s ability to often do or say the wrong thing, Dylan recognizes something special in the self-conscious girl. Not only is the young cellist an unspoiled beauty, but she possesses a mighty gift, a sensitivity that allows her to hear the loveliness of creation and translate it in a way that makes it real to others. This is what makes her special – and it is also what brings her to the attention of an evil creature seeking to employ her gift for his own corrupt purposes.
There’s so much to like about Lund’s book, I scarcely know where to begin. I’ll start by saying it’s an intriguing blend of fantasy and gentle romance.
The relationship between Dylan and Minnie has all the hallmarks of young love the uncertainty, the bliss. Indeed, even the sweet gaucherie which made me both smile and wince as I recalled the vulnerability of that experience. The pain and joy of being a novice at love is realistically, vividly portrayed.
Lund has populated the book with compelling characters. There’s Minnie’s friend, Dee, the girl many of us can remember envying in high school. Dee has it all – beauty, charm, confidence. You’d almost hate her if it weren’t for the support and genuine affection she feels for her friend. Then there is Dee’s grandmother, an artistic and eccentric old lady who senses the forces of darkness that are threatening Minnie’s spiritual and physical well-being. Those forces, under the control of a dark power, involve evil swans who transform into earring-wearing cats and ugly birds of prey that smell of death and decay.
Most intriguing to this reader, however, was Thad, a dark prince of an even darker principality. It’s never clear whether Thad is the manifestation of Lucifer or just one of his lieutenants. What we do know is that like Lucifer, he is crafty and able to turn a lie to his own advantage, and that he inflicts pain casually, almost nonchalantly. Not because he must, but because he can. In Minnie, Thad recognizes an ability to create new worlds through her music. The desire to create something beautiful, perhaps something as beautiful as that designed by the original Creator, seems to drive him. His own spiritual darkness corrupts any possibility of success. Instead, his twisted nature engineers a warped imitation of all that is good and lovely. He needs Minnie’s goodness, her talent, to create real beauty. He doesn’t understand that the ability to create beauty comes from the soul – as does the ability to create ugliness.
There’s an appealing duality running through this story that elevates it from being just another tale of young love, or even a fantasy about evil chasing a sweet girl. There’s something more compelling going on a recognition that there is a daily struggle taking place between the forces of good and evil, light and dark, creativity and fruitless attempts at transformation. The careless way in which Thad inflicts pain on those who serve him reminds me of some elements in C.S. Lewis’s novel, “The Screwtape Letters.” While Lewis’s book was a cautionary tale cloaked in humor about a very dark world, the same ugliness and darkness exist in the brutish world inhabited by Thad and the demons that dwell there with him.
I was much taken with the beauty of Lund’s writing, the lovely imagery and the lyricism of some passages. It was a satisfying read from start to finish, and I enjoyed it immensely.
Having read Selkie and really enjoyed it, I returned once more to dip my toe into a Julia Lund Book and was so pleased to discover that my first foray into her world was not a flash in the pan. Once again, this is an author who has demonstrated an ability to get into the head of her young characters in a way that is a little bit special. Though not set against it, I am so often let down as a reader by poor first person narrative, not so here. Her clever believable dialogue, difficult to achieve in a book like this is fundamental to the success of the story, and what a clever story this is. Young love is awkward and special and it is beautifully managed here. The infusion of fantasy is not overdone, much like Selkie, Julia somehow successfully balances between the real world and that other worldly place with great aplomb allowing me a s a reader to just enjoy the story without the distraction of awkward points of improbability that can so often trip a writer up. Another fine book from a skilled story teller. Five stars from me.
For the longest time, I could not see what Dylan could possibly see in her either — she was pathetic in his presence, stumbling over her words and any object that happened to be near. How he had the patience to deal with her self loathing, dysfunctional character was beyond me, as she wrung my patience very thin at times — but they say love is blind or maybe it sharpened his vision and helped him to see past the superficial flaws into her true character and understand the deeper strengths lying dormant under all those insecurities playing on the surface of this shy 16 year old — a young woman who eventually has to “man up”, and pull herself together to battle dark forces and demons in an attempt to overcome death in the fantastical realm of the underworld.
“Strong as Death” is very well written, creative and entertaining. If you like fantasy, stories dealing with the ideas of souls, life after death, hell-like and heaven-like places, and dragonflies you will love this book. The story is an engaging tale about Minnie Shilling, an aspiring cellist, who sets eyes on Dylan Lachlanand, and falls madly in love with him, but there are evil machinations to steal her soul that promise to end their young love. As Minnie begins to sense she’s being watched, she sees mysterious creatures, and feels a dark presence she cannot explain, her dysfunctional character begins to mature when she realizes that she is not crazy — there really is a sinister darkness stalking her — a dark force that eventually drags her into the underworld.
There were many times I wondered whether Minnie’s love would really be as strong as death; especially after she entered the dark world of Thad and his demons, soul reapers, shape shifters, the labyrinth of books of dead souls, lifetellers, and the other un-worldly places she encountered in the underworld. A world that is so very imaginative and well done. Who can resist an invitation to discover places with names like the Déjà Lu, the Plain of Ethad, the dark realm of Thad, and the land beyond the Door of Lies?
While wandering the vast emptiness of the underworld, a place that’s surprisingly full of stuff, Minnie meets Mullog, a forlorn and much maligned little demon. I really loved Mullog. The idea that there can be good, even in a demon, is such a nice touch. I also really liked the relationship between Minnie and Mullog. Their ad hoc communication through her interpretation of his music was delightful. Her ability to have compassion for a demon who is despised by all the other demons demonstrated the goodness in Minnie’s heart. Her ability to set aside her fears and prejudices and befriend a lonely demon gave him a sense of happiness and purpose in his otherwise miserable life captures much of the essence of the book. I appreciated the faithfulness of the characters to each other in an age where being faithful is often non-existent.
Minnie holds on to life only through the strength of love in the face of death — “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” (Song of Songs 86). Can Minnie’s love continue to burn with a mighty flame? Is her love really as strong as death?
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