Well, the Sangreal Trilogy reaches its entirely predictable conclusion in a satisfying enough way. The final volume seems to have fewer jokes, perhaps because the fate of worlds is as stake, but it was still a pleasant enough read. And it isn’t meant to be heavy stuff, after all. Here’s hoping it has sold well enough to get Hemingway another book deal. I’ll buy them if she does.
One thing I would like to highlight. At the back of the book there is am actual, genuine credits page, listing agents, editors, publicists (hi Rebecca and David!), people who helped with the research and so on. This is a good thing to do. I wish more books would do it.
I always used to do the classic end-of-book credits page, with all due acknowledgements duly acknowledged. Then someone complained. He said that he reached the end of the book and wanted only to dwell there, and found himself suddenly thrust instead into the backstage, beyond the magic, where all the tricks are revealed; and he didn’t want to see that, it was mood-shattering and discordant and wrong. So I stopped.
Then please start again. Don’t let one spoilsport ruin things for everyone else. I mean really, if someone’s enjoyment of the book is spoiled that easily, simply dropping the credits page isn’t going to solve their problem.
Okey-doke. I’m actually with you on this, I enjoy acknowledgements pages, but I thought maybe that was just me…
Nope, it is you and me, and I’m pretty sure that La Gringa will be up for this one too. Between us we can conquer the world!
(Practices mad scientist laugh.)
FWIW I like reading the credits/acknowledgements, whether at the beginning or end of the book. I can’t fathom someone found it mood-shattering; this sounds like someone who simply forgot to close the book a page earlier….