| Verdict: 4 Stars A bold, new phenomenon has taken place in publishing, arguably started by the indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new content. This phenomenon covers the ability to rewrite editions, switch points of view on a previously published story, draft an alternate ending, and more. One of the more prolific romance authors to offer up alternate view points for her storylines and casts of characters is Abbi Glines, whose Rosemary Beach novels are published by Atria (Simon&Schuster). For many of her novels, often told from the female lead’s viewpoint, Glines returns to the steamy scene of the crime and republishes the male lead’s novel as well. Such is the case for the book Rush Too Far, which tells the story of Blaire Wynn and Rush Finlay from Rush’s point of view. I have to say that books like this are actually tricky. There’s a fine line that has to be balanced in several directions. It can’t be so filled with obscure references to a previous book that new readers are lost, and it can’t be so overexaggerated that long-time fans feel the repetition. That’s coupled with the interesting dynamic that various characters in the book each have their own series from Glines, so at times I felt lost and overwhelmed with trying to keep the characters straight. It was tough to figure out who was related to whom and where they fit into the story. Overall, it was really reaching for this to be anything close to plausible, but that’s part of the fun of romance. It keeps things in the realm of fantasy when the reality of relationships can be far less storybook-worthy. Rush Too Far is available today. eBook Review: Rush Too Far by Abbi Glines is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Sunday, May 4, 2014
eBook Review: Rush Too Far by Abbi Glines
Why do we Abandon Reading Certain Books?
| There are many books we all intend on reading someday and even go out of our way to buy, in the hopes we might read them. Sometimes they are a classic like Catch 22, War and Peace or The Republic.In other cases its published recently and we hear about it in the media, such as 50 Shades of Grey, The Casual Vacancy or the Goldfinch. What makes us abandon books after a few pages or never quite get into it? Social Media website GoodReads recently published a piece on the psychology of abandonment. Their research found that Catch-22, Lord of the Rings, Ulysses, Moby-Dick, and Atlas Shrugged were the top abandoned books. The top five most abandoned contemporary books included J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Eat Pray Love. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Wicked” were also frequently discarded. Why do we abandon books after a few pages or get back to them years later? Does the average person really read everything a specific author writes, or just stay locked into their favorite genres? A number of people weighed in on the subject. “I adore the Harry Potter books, but I’m not the kind who would read everything written by a favourite author and in the case of Rowling, I refuse to read her other novels (excluding the three Harry Potter companion books), The Casual Vacancy and The Cuckoo’s Calling.” Another user weighed in and mentioned “I read for pleasure and to escape the real world, and not to better myself. I’d become a better person by reading those serious tomes, I know, but since I haven’t read them, I’m not a better person, and thus won’t read them.” Xanthe contributed his thoughts “There are a lot of books that I can’t finish, mainly books with heroines who are too stupid to live (or too annoying to be around) or heroes who are totally scarred by the deaths of their partners for which they blame themselves. Or books about middle-aged women whose husbands have divorced them unexpectedly and now find love with a younger man. Or poor Irish maidservants at the turn of the 20th century who become matriarchs of a dysfunctional clan. Or mysteries in which whodunit is telegraphed by easy process of elimination. Or books in which a whole chapter is devoted to a sex scene for no plot-driven purpose (I’m looking at you, Laurell K. Hamilton). Or “important” books that are supposed to make me reflect upon the human condition by portraying lives of people that I wouldn’t like if I knew them in real life. Or books that are so excessively footnoted to the point that the author has managed to destroy any interest that I might have had in the topic because the rhythm of the books is constantly broken up by them.”
Why do we Abandon Reading Certain Books? is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Used Kindle DX Now Going for $9999 at Amazon
| Occasionally I happen to come across something insanely expensive on Amazon that makes me question reality (like these $48,400 speaker wires) but never have I seen a ten thousand dollar Kindle. Last week The eBook Reader Blog was the first to report that Amazon had stopped selling the Kindle DX, and it appeared that the […] |
Onyx Boox T68 and M96 Android eBook Readers (Video)
| Charbax over at ArmDevices has posted a YouTube video filmed at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair showing a couple of upcoming Android-powered ebook readers from Onyx, the Boox T68 and M96. The Onyx Boox T68 looks especially interesting. It uses the same 6.8-inch 265 dpi screen (1440 x 1080 resolution) as the Kobo Aura HD, […] |