You see the cover. You read the inside flap. Maybe an author you really like is quoted on a back cover blurb. The book sounds great – and maybe it is! Or maybe it isn’t, and you’ve fallen victim to a misleading synopsis. This week’s Top 5 Wednesday is about bad synopses – they can glam up a boring book, dumb down a fabulous book, or make you think that a plot element is more relevant than it actually is. Either way, they can be dicey. Here are 5 “liar liar pants on fire” synopses I’ve experienced. Continue reading “T5W: Liar Liar”
There are books that we blow through like *that.* Books that prompt us to stay up through all hours of the night reading until it’s not even night anymore. Books that we can’t turn the pages of fast enough.
These are not those books.
For the record, I have actually completed all these books, and am thus fully qualified to wax eloquent for Top Five Wednesday (yes yes I know it’s Thursday) about how badly they draaaaaaaaaaaagged. Another point of clarification – I’m not saying these are bad books, just that they took me a few minutes shy of eternity to finish.
Book Freak-Out 