“Read anything good lately?”
That’s a dicey question for a reader to answer because what one person gleans from a novel and the reasons she enjoys a novel might not gel with another reader’s expectations. Readers’ category “good” varies drastically.
Asking people to read and review Man in the Mist is a vulnerable experience. I have to take the good with the bad. Readers may love it because it’s a preferred genre. They may hate it because they hate the genre. One reader may love a novel for the same reason someone else hates it.
So I say advise readers to give a book try if the plot sounds intriguing. Read at least a third of the book, and if you lose interest, lose the book. Find another. Putting a book aside doesn’t mean it was bad. It means it isn’t for you. I’ve stretched myself to read genres and novels I wasn’t sure about that have utterly, pleasantly surprised me.
One Instagram reader, Katie Drake, @k.e. drake, recently had this to say about Man in the Mist. I love that she gave it a chance.
Another reader from Instagram, Rachel Parker, @sweetromanceauthors, who reviews and spotlights clean romance books, created a database of clean romance authors that can be sorted by their physical intimacy level, subgenres, triggers, and swearing. Man in the Mist is in it.
She made the cover look even prettier! I didn’t know that was possible.
She’s my kind of reader!!!
Thank you to all my readers for your support and for helping get Man in the Mist into the world!