Book Blogger Hop #365

 

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This week's question is: Has your perspective on reading changed as you've grown older? If so, has it affected how you write your reviews? (Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

MY ANSWER: I don't think it has. Not really. I guess it's more my tastes have changed? I used to read YA Contemporary wayyyyyy back in the day. Yeah, I know. You're SHOCKED! But after I got my little taste of the paranormal I found I could not handle contemporary anymore. The ordinariness of it all just bored me. It was too mundane, too real life like and I just couldn't handle it.

Trying to swing back on topic of perspective and not just "taste," I guess it still really hasn't changed much. I mean I still like YA, I still like adult books. Whatever is "hot" in publishing and puts more out there is what I am likely to read. Right now both are booming so I'm back and forth with YA and adult or the upper YA margin where you're never quite sure which level it's aimed at.

As for how I write my reviews? I guess they are more or less the same. I mean I know when I started I might have recapped a bit too much. Not I just try to rehash a little of the blurb with an added kick just to really hook a reader in...as this is what I look for! Sometimes that blurb tells you nothing of what is going to happen in the book. It's just so vague, like now I am at a school and everyone wants to kill me. But like, WHY?! What did you do? Who are you? I try to give maybe a wee bit of insight behind the vagueness, just enough to answer but not enough to give anything away because I would want someone to say, oh she's a "special one" and that's all I would need to know! There's hint about her past and her destiny and that's enough to give me insight!

I try to ramble less in my reviews which depending on my feelings of the book may or may not change. I try to rein in it at times, but yeah, I can still ramble a bit. It's more like I want to say why a character drove me crazy with their choices or lack of motivation or whatever and I just need to rant. I can't tell you how many times I've had to delete sentences because when I went back and read them I was like, "nope! Too spoilery!"

Short answer: I feel like I haven't really changed too much but I have tried to tone myself down with getting too chatty! Lol.