You'd be surprised how many readers were excited to think it was a stand-alone.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Jan 22, 2013 7:58:24 am PST #20299 of 28380
Because books.
Kate P. - Jan 22, 2013 7:59:24 am PST #20300 of 28380
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ha! I admit, as a reviewer, I do get kind of excited when a teen book (especially one with fantasy or paranormal elements) is NOT a trilogy.
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2013 8:05:21 am PST #20301 of 28380
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You'd be surprised how many readers were excited to think it was a stand-alone.
I would not. Man, am I tired of EVERYTHING being a series. Can't I just read one book and be DONE?? I have so many other books to read dammit.
le nubian - Jan 22, 2013 8:06:23 am PST #20302 of 28380
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was kind of angry that Sunshine by Robin McKinley did not have a sequel. I intellectually understand her explanation, but it doesn't make much sense to me. She did a lot of world-building with that book, she can't come up with a sequel?
Sophia Brooks - Jan 22, 2013 8:08:57 am PST #20303 of 28380
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
"you've got a dark horse, you've got a cold kiss..." is stuck in my head again!
I am a little disappointed that there is not a third book, but I haven't read the second yet because I liked the first so much. I don't like things to end.
Amy - Jan 22, 2013 8:14:28 am PST #20304 of 28380
Because books.
"you've got a dark horse, you've got a cold kiss..."
Psst, I think it's dark HEART. Not that I can talk. Ask Cass how I mangled Kane lyrics one time.
Cold Kiss was conceived as a single book, so writing Glass Heart was sort of a challenge. I'd like to go back one day and revisit some of the other characters, or explore Wren's family history, but I think I'm happy with where I left Wren herself.
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2013 8:16:51 am PST #20305 of 28380
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cold Kiss was conceived as a single book, so writing Glass Heart was sort of a challenge.
On the one hand, weird to write a sequel to a book you didn't intend to write a sequel to. On the other hand, nice that they wanted you to!
Amy - Jan 22, 2013 8:21:35 am PST #20306 of 28380
Because books.
Yeah. It would have been even nicer if it had done well, but I'm still proud of it.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 22, 2013 8:23:32 am PST #20307 of 28380
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh dear.
zuisa - Jan 22, 2013 8:26:11 am PST #20308 of 28380
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I just finished my John Green marathon that started a couple months ago with me sobbing my way through The Fault in Our Stars and ended this morning when I finished Looking for Alaska. (Will Grayson, Will Grayson, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns were in there too)
I found myself wishing he'd been writing when I was in high school. That's not meant as a criticism - I LOVED all of them - but I was such a mess when I was the age his characters are that his books may have been overwhelmingly helpful.