Review: Now this is how it's done
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
I'm not normally a fan of novellas. I find that authors start with the best of intentions but they try to pack so much story into such a compact number of pages that something always suffers. Whether it's the storyline coming across rushed, the romance seeming forced or the characters not having enough time to fully develop, something has to give and no author who writes novellas is immune to this.I can happily say though that after reading Open House my feelings may have changed. Ladies and gentlemen... this is how a novella is written. Shannon took the time to fully develop each character to the point where you feel you know them and are invested in their stories (which I hope will continue). We are given a hint of a back story for Ares and Aphrodite which explains their feelings towards each other without veering off the romance developing between Rebecca and Robert.Fantastic world building rounded off a phenomenal book. This is one novella that I can say was exactly as it was meant to be and I wouldn't change a thing.