Book Review
of Kellynch
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Title: Kellynch
Author: Kwen D. Griffeth
Genre: Jane Austen Fanfiction / Romance
Jane Austen completed
“Persuasion” in August 1816. It was to be her last book. She left us with the
story of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth and she left them approaching “happily
ever after.” What happens the day following “happily ever after?”
The story of Kellynch
picks up three years after the couple married and were able to secure the
Kellynch estate from Sir Walter and Cousin William Elliot agreed to waive the
entailment.
It would seem all is
well with the young couple, but all is not as it seems.
Kellynch is a story of
deceit and treachery as well as courage and overcoming the odds. It is a story
in which those who were assumed to be friends are not and where support comes
from unexpected places. Love again, will, be tested in a story set against the
backdrop of historical events.
Throughout the book, I
have tried to remain true to the characters as Miss Austen created them. I
sought to develop and introduce new characters that would meet with her
approval.
Author
Bio
When describing my
life, I think Douglas Adams said it best, “I may not have gone where I intended
to go, but I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Books have always been
a large part of my meandering.
I grew up on a ranch
in southeastern Idaho and my friends were a mixed and rowdy bunch. Louis
L’Amour told me tales of the west, but Edgar Rice Burroughs took me to the
jungles of Africa. Sir Author Conan Doyle walked with me through the
fog-covered streets of London, and Jane Austen taught me to be a gentleman.
I read several other
authors but I was fourteen when I met the man. Sitting in an English class, I
chose a book from a required reading list and I was introduced to Ernest
Hemingway. His book, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” allowed Mister Hemingway,
Robert Jordan, and I to fight in the Spanish Civil War and I never left Idaho.
When I closed the back cover, I knew that no matter whatever else I did, I
would be a writer. Even today, when I think back, I am still in awe of how
Hemingway’s words touched the soul of an adolescent boy.
I entered the Army a
year after high school and stayed in uniform for the next two decades. The
military offered me the opportunity to live my own adventures separate from the
ones I lived vicariously in books. While in uniform, I worked in a variety of
fields, Infantry, Military Police, and Military Intelligence. I worked on a
psychiatric ward and later at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. I took
trips to Mexico, Canada, and twice to Germany. I have visited the forty-eight
contiguous states and desperately want to see the other two.
Along the way, I met
and kept printed friends Allister Maclean, Robert Ludlow, John Grisham, and Tom
Clancy. I had flings with several others, Joseph Wambaugh, Clive Cussler, and
Stephen King.
I started to write and
failed. Repeatedly, I would start a story, only to end it and discard it as it
sounded too much like the works of one of my friends. I went through periods
when I refused to read, because I was frustrated and angry with those friends.
Those friends who were what I wanted to be.
Fifteen years ago, I
got sick. I got sick and it was misdiagnosed. I almost died, but then I met the
doctor who figured out the riddle and, with his help, I started working my way
back. As I got better and my brain got stronger, stories, characters, and plots
started to form. I found my voice and I published my first book, a novella
called “Dear Emma,” in February 2012.
I used to feel strange
telling people, “I got better and now I hear voices,” but the statement is
accurate. I feel I am in good company as several authors have made such
references. As I said at the beginning, I am exactly where I need to be.
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Review:
I think was the best type of romance story because it showed how love can grow and why you should listen to your heart. It is also the story of family and of learning to love those closest to you.
I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.
I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.
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