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Saturday, 17 November 2018

Letter to a soldier by Tom A


Dear Soldier,
I am writing to you to say thank you for fighting for our country. You must have been really brave to fight the Germans and end up surviving it. It must have been hard, especially when there was a chance you could be shot or blown up every second. I wonder what your relatives would have felt knowing there was a chance you were dead or seriously injured. If I were them I would have been worried sick!
Now, these are the questions I would have asked you. What did you eat? What would you do if your eyesight started going bad? Did some of you go deaf from the whistling of the bombs as they came down? How did you feel when you heard the call to start fighting? They are all the questions I would have liked to ask you.
Thank you again for saving our country. I hope you lived and died with glory.
Yours sincerely,
Tom

Saturday, 10 November 2018

Book Review - Tom A


Five Nights at Freddy's The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon 
In the Twisted Ones book, Charlie, who is around 20 years old, is trying to overcome the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza the year before. She, John, Marla and Jessica, Charlie's best friends, try to discover the secrets of patterned murders happening around town, including one that looks like Charlie herself!
 She travels to her old house and finds some dug up ground in her back garden. She and John dig up the pile of dirt and discover the animatronic shell of a fox, but it didn't look like the well known Foxy the Pirate Fox, it looked different. As she is examining the shell of the robot, a strange ringing in her ears begins to give her a headache. She looks away and looks back and the suit had sprung to life and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off the ground. She thought she would die when John hit it round the head and punched in the chest. But as he did that, a disc flew out of the suit and landed in the grass. Charlie felt around for it, then when she actually found it, she noticed a strange red flashing light near the edge of disc. Her head still throbbing, she felt around for any other secrets on it when she noticed a small switch. She flicked the switch and her headache suddenly stopped. She flicked it again and the ringing in her ears and headache came back and the suit sprung to life again. She quickly flicked it again and the suit stopped right in front of Charlie and fell backwards. She and John head back to her car and mark out all the murders that happened on the map. The people, or things, that killed the people were travelling in a straight line and were heading towards the house of one of the people that had been murdered. So she decides to head to the house. She tells her friends Dad, who is a police officer, what she had found out so Officer Burke gave her the keys to the house so she could rest there and try to find out what they wanted. She gets to the house and lies in the bed in the upstairs bedroom when a dreaded thought comes across her, what if what they want, is her. She tried to sleep but she couldn't. She finally got close to drifting off when a loud thud was heard and the ringing in her ears returned. The bedroom door opened and a Freddy like creature rose up onto the bed and ate her alive! She then wakes up inside the bear costume in the ground. She found out how to open the suit and dig herself free. Charlie found herself in a maze full of the creatures that she was just inside of. When she thought they would kill her when the animatronics from the last location came and fought the ones that were going to kill Charlie. She made a run for it through a giant maze when she got confronted by the Purple Guy. This time she couldn't escape and got killed by being stuffed into a suit and being squashed alive.
As mentioned before, the main characters are Charlie, Officer Burke, John, Marla and Jessica. I felt that I got to know each of the characters really well through the book and got a great picture of what they looked like in my mind. My favourite character was John because he had a really good sense of humour like me and I felt I would get on with him if I actually knew him. The characters were all friends but Charlie and John started to date.
I felt it was a great and thrilling story because I was on the edge of my seat the entire time of reading this. It made me feel engaged in the book the entire time reading this. This book is the second in a trilogy of three and at this very moment in time I am on the final book in the trilogy called The Fourth Closet. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes nerve wracking horror stories.

Author letter by Tom A


Dear Scott Cawthorn,

I am writing to you to tell you how good I think your books are. I am a huge fan of your Five Nights at Freddie's franchise and when I found out you had written your first book [The Silver Eyes], I just knew I had to get it and read it. When I did, I found myself immersed in the book and felt I was actually there. When it came to the end of your book, I found it a real cliffhanger and I just knew you would release another book, but I didn't know when. A couple of weeks later I found out about your next book [The Twisted Ones] but couldn't afford it. So I had to wait until Christmas to get it. Again, it was so immersive and emotion triggering and I didn't want to finish it. And now, I'm reading the third book [The Fourth Closet] and I'm about to find out what happens when John and Charlie meet again.
But, all that aside, I have a few questions for you. First of all, what inspired you to create the Five Nights at Freddie's franchise? I never thought a small indie game that had no real purpose, would grow to a massive franchise of books, games and toys. Secondly, what inspired the characters? I just never thought a bear, rabbit, chicken and fox could be so frightening. And thirdly, what inspired William Afton, otherwise known as the purple guy? He has always creeped me out a bit.
I hope you write at least a few more amazing books in this incredible franchise.

Yours sincerely, Tom