Review: Paranormal Not So Much
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
Not a novella and not a short story.  Like so many lately this is a few chapters of a novel, a serial if you will.  The paranormal part only comes into play in the last few sentences of this offering.  Also like so many others a good bit of the page count is a teaser for the next few chapter offering.The writing is fair and this is intended for a younger audience though not necessarily teen agers.  Lots of references to current trends.  Language and sex are PG.  Author spends a lot of time on main character's self image.I picked it up because it was free and I have been reading widely in this genre, though I am not their target market.  Always an avid reader I started this quest as I was curious about what appears to be a dominant sector of the romance genre.  Having read and enjoyed crossover authors like Lilianna Hart and Stephanie Bond I decided to try the segment of the market they started in. So I started gathering a selection of these from amazon and reading them.  Surprisingly a significant number are good stories that would appeal to many men as well as their female target audience.Now I am left wondering about the serialization trend that seems to be taking over this genre more so than others.  Though I guess if the author is successful it would generate more money per book selling it in bite sized pieces.  However, I wonder what it will mean for the long term success of the authors that have chosen this route.  Or have the correctly gauged the short attention span that seems to be growing in the population and are packaging their works for people that prefer their books in bite sized pieces.Update: In checking this author's website (which I do routinely) she has decided to abandon the serial model and is working toward a complete model.  I congratulate her on that decision and lets hope some of the other writers make the same one.