I cracked open my copy of Level 26, the digi-novel I told you about a few weeks ago. The story is juicy, creepy, and moved very fast (last night, I almost forgot I actually do have to go to sleep at some point). Good book.
So then I got to the part where you’re supposed to go online and watch something. But the prompt was for a snuff film of one of the victims, made by our psycho bad guy…
As much as I imagined this might have cross-over appeal into YA, I would have to say: major negatory. Level 26 carries a rating of R-plus, if I can create such a category on the fly.
But a good book. The online part, the snuff film? I think I’ll pass…
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
April 2022 News (or: on reading slumps and lots of editing...)
April snuck up on me like a thief in the night! I’ve been so busy writing, editing, and coming up with ideas for Daybreak on Raven Island...
-
**This is my story for Patricia Abbott's flash fiction challenge (in short: have a redhead in a blue dress walk into a dining establishm...
-
*** This is my contribution to the Flash Fiction Challenge (setting: at the zoo), a short crime fiction bit to take me back to my roots fo...
-
From the Publisher: Everyone deserves to shine in this sparkling new book from the New York Times bestselling author of Escape from M...
Doesn't that... doesn't that take the fun out of writing the d@mn thing?
ReplyDeleteI mean, independent of the subject of the clip. I don't, personally, want to write such gruesome bits, but if I did, that would be the "good part."
(Or does the online clip just parrot / act out the existing printed part?)
Guess I should wiki "digi-novel" before I comment from the cuff...
You can see what this digi-novel is about through the link. I think it's a nice idea that will probably misfire and fizzle out, but maybe I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think the point of a book is to not have to go quite as far with the gruesome stuff--as reader or writer.
I clicked through.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a bad idea, and I'm all for new this and unconventional that. Glad the book is a good read, can never have too many of those.
Notwithstanding the valid fact that we're still talking about the macabre, I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the notion of writing a book that doesn't actually write about what it purports to have written about. Seems binary to me, either tell a story or don't.
Has my interest, and wouldn't have heard about it but for you and your post, so thank you. I wonder, would it be too old school for me to pitch a manuscript that relies on a Powerpoint presentation at regular intervals, to compliment the text... [scratches chin]
;-)
Oh, boy. That's pretty scary. Someone just send me a YA to review. I think I'm about to learn a lot about what's going on out there.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the dark side, Patti... Actually, YA is a lot of fun to read, if done right.
ReplyDelete