Better Fiction: The Blog

In the discussion of the book, Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow, I have enlisted some expert help. Her code name is Tanya Furgway, and I left her with the book while the Mrs. and I sat down to enjoy a Hercule Peroit DVD. As the night drew to a close, Tanya knelt beside my wife's chair and whispered in her ear.

My wife looked at me in alarm. "You let her read a scary story?"

"It's terrifying!" Tanya confirmed. "Unfortunately, I'll have to finish the book, 'cause I'll die if I don't know what happens to Hunter Brown. The writers are very creative. I mean extremely creative. They write as if you're inside the book and can see what's really happening to the character. Some stories are scary because they're out of this world. This is scary because you can imagine it happening, and that makes it even more frightening."

Interested, I asked for some insight into the plot. Frankly, it sounds out of this world to me.

In the other room, as I write this, they are talking about the book even now. "Is this a children's story?" My wife asks.

Tanya repeats the question to me. Perhaps the truer answer would be "Young Adult", but I say, "Yes."

Tanya passes on my answer and adds that it's a Christian book. "Christian?" My wife calls out. "Why would they want to scare you? What makes it Christian?"

I hear Tanya repeating one of the plot points about the "Dispirits" not being able to enter the church.

Tanya enters my study, she says that, yesterday, when I first showed her the book, she read a few sentences and didn't want to stop reading. For tonight, she will have to stop. My wife says that if Tanya can't sleep and crawls into our bed...I'm getting kicked out.

These are the risks we run on the CSFF Blog Tour. Will I get to sleep in my own bed? Found out tomorrow as we continue our look into the first in the "Codebearers" series.

In the meantime find out more at the Miller Brothers' website. Or see what our other bloggers have to say:

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