First Impressions: Stolen Fury

This isn't a book review -- I don't do book reviews. I just don't, though every once in a while I'll talk about a book I love or recommend a new read. And I never talk about a book I haven't finished yet.

I'm making an exception to that last bit right now. This morning I started reading Stolen Fury by Elisabeth Naughton. I'm only in the middle of the third chapter, but I can't wait until I'm finished with the book to tell people to read it. It's that good.

Like I said, I don't do the review thing. As a reader, before I started writing, a good book was a book that pulled me into the story and didn't let go until the very last page (a great book stays with me far longer). Now that I've started writing I have a slightly different view. A good book still pulls me into the story, but it also does something else: a good book makes me want to write, like right now. It's a bit of a paradox, that conflicting desire to continue reading versus putting the book down to work on my own work in progress.

Stolen Fury is such a book. It starts off exciting and doesn't show any signs of letting up. I'm having such a good time reading it that my teeth itch from wanting to write.

This short blog post is my compromise. Now I'm going back to my reading -- I can't wait to find out what's coming next!