I hope other publishers don't start doing this partial arc thing. I read reviews before I buy books, and they would be a lot less helpful if they were only half finished. My plan was to read the first 2 chapters of this sample from Edelweiss to see if I wanted to add this to my new releases calendar, but I was sucked into the story and read the whole thing.Now I have to wait until March to read the other two thirds of the book. I should have stopped at chapter 3. I'll buy this when it releases, but I won't be downloading anymore samples. Yeah, read about 75 pages without realizing it was a sampler (damn you work for taking away all my investigating book time) so I'm gonna stop now and not waste anymore time when I'll have to read it again. I enjoy it so far, although I think it needs a bit more explaining at times, a bit more fleshing out to make it less of a generic fantasy world that you find in 80% of fantasy YA (warring kingdoms, magic is dangerous, etc). Unless I get a paper ARC from someone kind to lend one (anyone, pweeze halp?), I'll check back in when it comes out and think about buying a copy.Publishers, if you're gonna do this - and I get WHY you and the author did - please mark it when it goes up? I was wondering why it was so frickin short LOL.Also, for the 1 person who might care about my personal opinion on piracy, pirates gonna pirate. Most of them aren't the type to buy the book anyway. I've seen author friends issue takedown notices and have the book be reuploaded an hour later. It's frustrating, yeah, but it's a fact of anything creative in the internet age. Ugh, I need to stop ranting at bed time, because at bed time I become even more of a pessimist than usual.
What do You think about The Orphan Queen (2000)?
Whoooah, pass me this on a plate please. And that'll be cream on the side too, thanks.
—Steph
4,5 stars.Read an ARC from the Author :)Review to come.BLACK KNIFE I LURVE YOU
—hailey
