Review: Tell Me More!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
This was a wonderful first effort by a new fiction writer. Tiffany Dow has tons of experience as an excellent nonfiction writer, so I was really looking forward to reading her first fictional story.While it took me a little bit to get into the story, and definitely this is not a genre I would normally purchase, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to read and how engaging the characters were.The real key was that at one point I found myself forgetting it was a story and reading it just to find out what happened to the characters. In other words, I was so engrossed in the story that I forgot it was just a story - the characters were real to me and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. That is the highest praise anyone could ever give to a writer, an actor, or any representation of real life. To become so involved in a story that it seems to be happening around you - that's the mark of a good storyteller.By the way, I also love that Tiffany involved both of her children in developing the storyline. What a great lesson for our children, to allow them to be part of the creative process, teaching them that their ideas can have an impact on the world at large.Even though this is not my chosen genre, I'm looking forward to reading the upcoming books to find out more about the evolving characters, and (of course) to find out how the story ends.