The mark leigh fallon7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an engaging story, heavy on the "snogging" and light on the mystical perils, from an author likely to improve with time. The intense, immediate romance between Megan and Adam remains the focus and the main draw. Several chapters of teenage day-in-the-life narration ensue before Fallon suddenly dumps mysterious marks, elemental forces, and the Celtic goddess Danu into the mix, and the story takes off in a paranormal direction that the first third of the book has only hinted at. She promptly abandoned her 'riveting' career in corporate treasury and discovered Inkpop, a website for budding writers of teen fiction. While living in beautiful Kinsale, her novel, Carrier of the Mark was conceived. Megan fits right in with the popular crowd at her new school, but a broodingly handsome boy, Adam DeR s, keeps staring at her, and Megan stares right back, despite her friends' warnings. Leigh Fallon was born in South Africa, raised in Dublin, Ireland and moved to Cork in her 20's. ![]() The setup is familiar and briskly handled: 17-year-old Megan Rosenberg has moved to Kinsale, Ireland, with her father after several unsettled years following the death of Megan's mother. Fallon's debut novel, first published on the HarperCollins online writing community and then selected for print, is a better-than-average offering that occasionally betrays its amateur roots with some uneven pacing. ![]()
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