Review: IT? RT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2013
A tweet from my friend Stefano one hour ago: "I just bought Rising Up (Karma #4)". Retweet. amazon.com, buy in one click, back to Twitter, comment: "Me too." And then I started reading.Bless new technology for this kind of excitment. There is a real sense of community nowadays with indie writers on social media, even more so with the LOOW, or the League Of Original Woolwrights. These guys put us readers in the middle of their creations, and reading has never felt so thrilling before, at least for me.Episode 4 of the Karma series worked just as fine as the three previous installments had. It is still that easy to get back into the Silo world we now know so well and still crave so much. Patrice Fitzgerald continues to make her characters grow on us, while delivering deeper messages, such as control of the masses (here with drugs, just like Aldous Huxley, whom she quotes at the beginning, once predicted).Back to the "excitment thing" mentioned earlier. What I really like about these Wool-fanfiction episodes is that not only do you know where you are going with them, you also know that you'll be able to read them in one sitting. This is not to say that I'm too lazy to read longer works, just that it perfectly fits with a modern lifestyle. It's really cool to be able to schedule an hour of reading time in your day, and know in advance that this will allow you to cover a complete story. Or at least a meaningful part of a complete story: if you consider each of the five parts as chapters, you realize that the whole won't be so short after all, and provide you with roughly five hours of reading pleasure.OK, Stefano. I'm waiting for your next tweet telling me that Patrice Fitzgerald's next and final chapter of the Karma series is out...