Review: They Keep Getting Better
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
While all of the active setting books are related, they do focus on specific aspects of active setting.  This one deals with providing appropriate levels of setting depending on the feel you're trying to achieve.  For example, if you're writing a heavy hitting action scene you don't want to slow the reader down with long sections of description.  However, you can add to the tenseness of the scene by giving a quick view of a room as a character attempts to hide or flee.  Other items, such as anchoring a character to a time and place are handled, as well as a character's feelings about a place.  Essentially, the setting becomes an additional character in the story and how the human characters interact with it builds emotion and drama.All of the books in this series are pretty short, so be aware that what you are paying is for less than a 100 pages of information.  That being said, the presentation is very well done, the examples are pertinent and contemporary, and I felt that my money was well spent.