Thanks for an awesome series!

Adam

Problem 3. Your character development is very juvenile. I’ve seen a picture of you. You are an adult. So there is no sense in that. And you need to better describe the scenery around Kate and Daniel. Not everyone knows the beliefs of various religions and using more adjectives would greatly help us readers to literally jump into your story.

Also, you change your story. What I mean is that you said that Daniel was 10 years old when his mother murdered his sister and then like in the second book you said that he was 12. So which is it?

But other than that, I really like the story. I hate to be so critical of you and appreciate you doing this and trying to get your name out there as an author but believe me, there are critics out there that will point that out. So it’s better that it comes from a fan, rather than some grouchy aristocrat.

Anyway, great story just needs a few improvements. Nothing you can do now since the stories are done but oh well. Future advice, I guess.

“namely, that a couple of people you might find next door, have suddenly found themselves in charge in the afterlife and all the details that might entail.”

That’s exactly what keeps you hooked…

What can I say, I’m hooked… and now on to book 4

Yes, there is coarse language peppered throughout, but it reminds me that the characters are teenagers (right?). Its nothing like Crescent, for example, where although the plot is gripping the foul language seems to step in for…well…language.
Ms. Lafferty is a wonderful antedote for the abundance of ‘dumb boy throwup’ that dominates these genres.

A couple of things I’m not crazy about.

One is the frequent use of coarse language. I think a story can be told effectively without being so vulgar and profane so often.

Two, Ms. Lafferty’s narration occasionally leaves something to be desired. Too often there are gaps in the narration where it is apparent she has become distracted and/or has lost her place on the page while speaking. This is just a minor distraction, however.

Overall, I’m enjoying the story and it will be interesting to see where the rest of it goes.

This is not Mur’s best work, and though it is true I haven’t actually read that much of her stuff, I do know what she is capable of, and this isn’t it. I am not saying its bad or even unlistenable; after all I did actually sit through all three episodes with little difficulty, but rarely does the quality rise above what I consider average.

I just kinda get the impression she threw this one together and didn’t really work that on refining it, because in essence the stories are quite good ones. But they are more like rough diamonds straight from the earth without the polished, fine cut finish they really should have.

No, not yet. But that is a good suggestion. We do put out notifications of new books and new episodes on a Twitter feed — http://twitter.com/podiobooks — if that helps.

We also post all new books here on the blog. You’ll only get new books and the occasional bit of news I put forth.

Finally, when the next book comes out, Mur will be talking about it pretty loudly. http://murlafferty.com is the place.

And we’ll see if we can’t work on a way to let folks sign up to receive news of when another sequel to a series is released.

E.

Evo – is there anyway that we could sign up to be notified when the next book becomes available?

now i’m about to listen to episode 12 in the third season….

will there be more sometime down the road? Or is this the end?