One Reader's Ramblings

This is one of the more interesting premises for a series I have run across in some time.   Set in a post-apocalyptic time it follows the story of a young girl who never knew she was anything but ordinary… come to find out she’s the savior of them all.

Life is busy.  It doesn't matter who you talk to, or how much they try to live simply if people are honest when you ask "How are you doing?" They will say something along the lines of crazy, hectic, or busy at best.   If you are single and live alone, you still have work projects, grocery shopping cleaning, budgeting, etc.  If like me, you are a mom of school-age kids you can add to all that, getting the kids ready for school, helping with homework, volunteering at the school, and THEN if the kids are in a sport or after-school activity the list just gets insane. 

Every book has to have a setting, characters, and plot... Sorry, but having a daughter in 7th grade doing book reports has to rub off on me a little... So let's start there.  Setting: New York.   Characters: Nephilium, Angels, vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and even the Fairy people (with a few "mundanes" thrown in here and there).  Plot: Shadowhunters/Nephium hunt demons and keep the peace between “Downworlders”, like vampires and werewolves, with lots and lots of battles thrown in (obviously I'm WAY oversimplifying, but you get the idea).

So the last time I wrote I was bemoaning the fact that I had nothing to write passionately about.  You MAY have noticed that since then I skipped a week of writing... Yes, it was due to the same issue.  But today I have something I am very passionate about.

Do writers always have a story in their head?   Do they always have something they could write about? Even when they have writer’s block, is the story still there?   Under the surface?   Waiting to be written?   These are the questions that fill my head because I know I am “supposed” to write a blog post, but I have nothing to write about.   

This book is so hard to categorize.   I mean, yes, it goes under werewolves, but as far as good, bad, or meh…. That’s a whole other issue.   The writing was TERRIBLE!   If it hadn’t been free… AND I hadn’t been in a hurry to find something to read while sitting in a hospital waiting room there is NO way, after reading the sample, I would have clicked “buy.”     

I love finding a book that I’m excited to write about!     This is just such a book!   It has everything I look for in a story—dynamic interesting characters, fascinating and complex plot (almost too complex at one point… but more on that later), and even a great setting.