I’m going to be honest. It took me four tries to get through this book. Now, that might have been because I was borrowing it from my e-library, which has a very annoying two-week limit. Often, I finish books within a week. The Scorch Trials took me closer to eight. It definitely wasn’t as good as the Maze runner, I thought, and I think that was because this book focused less on Character and more on plot. The mystery is coming out pretty slowly at this point, but there is a lot of action. So if you love action, this is probably for you.

I will read the rest of this series, but that kind of because they are making the movies and I’m the kind of person that has to read the books before watching the show. Now I’m free to finally go and watch The Scorch Trials movie. Dashner also has a very appealing writing style, in that he writes books that are paced well and easy to follow, making them a low-stress read, which I sometimes crave in my busy life.

Thomas is a compelling character, but I would love to see and learn more of some of the others. Maybe this will happen in the later books.

4/5 Stars.

When I was out shopping the other day, I saw these EOS lip balms. I’ve since seen this holiday pack everywhere, taking up whole shelves at Walmart and drugstores. I’d seen many people use the EOS lip balm in the past, and I’d always thought, how weird is that: round lip balm. There was just something so wrong about it.

But then I saw this holiday pack, containing three different lip balms: Vanilla, Sweet Mint, and some kind of berry, and the whole thing radiated a faint minty smell and came with these cool silver “gem” stickers to that you could decorate the lip balm and make it your own. And I thought, I have to get that. So I did. And I decorated my balms and I love them and then I thought, You know, this is what every Reader, Writer, NaNoWriMo-er needs: lip balm. Because when you’re using your ereader, spending hours reading a regular book, or trying to write something good, your lips get really dry. My lips get really dry.

Well, not any more! Because I have these. And bonus points: they’re paraben free and mostly natural!

Pick a character you’re working with this NaNo. How would they answer the following three questions:

1) if I had to kill someone, it would be with a:
     a) knife
     b) poison
     c) gun
     d) I would never be able to do that

2) In order to show my ultimate love for someone, I would ___________.

3) If I could give one person everything they need, to absolutely no benefit to myself, it would be _______.

This story introduces a new character who will play a fairly major roll in Broken Tide, the sequel to Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch. Broken Tide will be release November 30th, so be sure to read Black Depths before then.

And, of course, if people like Black Depths, I may write more about Barry.

You can find Black Depths by clicking on the picture below.

I’m still working on some stuff for WattPad, and will have Black Depths the short story up by November 1st. You heard it here first – that’s my promise.

I’m working more on marketing and promotion. My goodreads giveaway seems to have gone off well. Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch has received more reviews. Some of them 5 stars! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed my book, whether you liked it or not. If you did like it, the best thing you can do is to recommend it to a friend and bring everyone a bit of happiness.

Once Broken Tide is out and listed on the Goodreads site, I will be doing another giveaway (or two), so watch for that.

1. The Character Emerges

Imagine your character emerging from your paper, a painting, a television, etc. What is the first thing your character does? Do they run and hide? Do they stand tall in the face of danger? Do they pick up the remote control and change the channel on the television? Raid the fridge? Pick up a book? Call a friend? Cry? Laugh? Shout for freedom?

Write one page on how your character reacts. If you need a character, feel free to use the one in the image below.