{"id":404,"date":"2011-06-13T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/wordpress\/?p=404"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:39:16","slug":"dreamfever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Dreamfever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading Karen Marie Moning&#8217;s &#8220;Dreamfever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out how she does it. It usually takes me about a month to read a book, but I don&#8217;t think any book in the fever series took me longer than a week. Because I write novels myself (but am not yet published) I study always the story structure, the sentence construction, the character development etc. of every book I read. Usually I can spot errors or things that I think should be done differently. With these books, however, my analysis gets short-circuited. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t quite know how she does what she does. The books draw me in too deeply and I forget to study the mechanics of her work&#8211;which is really annoying. Maybe by the time I read the fifth book in the series, &#8220;Shadowfever,&#8221; I&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s going on. 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