Review: Not Worth the $2.99
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
bookshelves: fantasy, fiction, mythology, own-kindle, paranormal, paranormal-fae, short, will-never-finish, young-adultRecommended to Lissa by: Saga BergRecommended for: TEENS with SHORT ATTENTION SPANS!Read on April 06, 2012, read count: 1Goodreads Synopsis:Nordic Liosálfar Svala and Viggo have been in love for a thousand years. After two years apart Svala turns on her TV to find Viggo in the public light, posing as a movie star. She tries to seek him out and the events that follow forces some deep buried secrets to surface...Svala and Viggo have spent a hundred lives together over the last thousand years. As Liosálfar, Nordic light fairies, their job is to do good and to uphold a balance in the mortal world. A balance, often compromised by the Döckálfar, Nordic dark fairies.But even good fairies need incentive.Svala and Viggo are kept apart each life until they fulfill their assignments. Only when, and if, they succeed are they allowed to be together for whatever period of time the powers that be decides. Sometimes they are together for decades, other times years and during the last union once only three weeks.In this life, Svala turns on her TV and learns that Viggo has become a popular movie star. This is not only highly unexpected, it indicates something is wrong and that Viggo is attempting to contact Svala before their assignments are carried out, an action which is strictly forbidden.Svala seeks him out, but not without breaking a few rules of her own, and learning that things are not always as they seem.Lissa ReviewsI can read anything from a quick read to and full length seems never to end novel. The story has t do a do a few things such as grab and hold my attention. It's also important to have other components such as have a beginning, middle and end. Well the ending doesn't need to be tied up in a neat package as long as some story lines are resolved and the book is left on a cliff keeping me waiting for the story to continue.That is why when my copy of "Nordic Fairies" that was provided to me directly from Saga Burg abruptly ended mid-chapter I contacted her immediately.Her response was what shocked me! My copy was not lacking the rest of the book. She had opted to market the book like a television series-- give you just a little to draw you in then leave you hanging mid- chapter/thought for three months. Then she shocks you with a price tag of $2.99 for the next few chapters. Where as you can guess she will leave you hanging for another two to three months where you will have to pay another $2.99 to continue the story.Don't get me wrong. I think the way she is marketing the book is pure genoius. It's the fact she choose to end the story with including a middle or end. It left e frustrated and uninterested in continuing the.... Whatever burg will call this ploy to have nave readers wind up paying and excessive amount of money for one book.It has nothing to do with the length of Burgs story. I have enjoyed other shorts such as Claimed, One last Bite, Single-handed and Beginnings just to name a few. It has to do with substance ....Burg begins the story by filling the reader in on most if not all that pertained to the stories background. Just as she moves into the main storyline and starts filling it out... bam... she abruptly ends it. The story has a beginning but, no middle or end. However, it is engaging enough to draw in even the most reluctant reader. It's not long enough to lose them yet it will peek their curiosity to continue and spark interest to continue.As for me; I will not continue the... whatever this is until Burg is finished with her marketing gimmick and sell the book in its entirety.