I won a signed copy through Goodreads. At first I was a bit skeptical of reading the story. I didn’t know how I would take reading a book about a story of an author who was writing a story, where do you actually got to read that story. I was worried it would distract me too much. But Stacey Osbeck did a remarkable job of making each story come to life so much so that I was quickly drawn into both in a seamless way that just made me want to keep reading. Outside of the story, her descriptions of the woods and life in the rural and hot south were spot-on. It’s been a long time since my college days, living in the south, and having walked through a forest full of kudzu, but through her writing, I was able to transfer myself back two decades to those magical feelings I had of being surrounded by mystery and just seeming that anything is possible. I found it to be a delightful, quick-read, YA story. ( )

I won a signed copy through Goodreads. At first I was a bit skeptical of reading the story. I didn’t know how I would take reading a book about a story of an author who was writing a story, where do you actually got to read that story. I was worried it would distract me too much. But Stacey Osbeck did a remarkable job of making each story come to life so much so that I was quickly drawn into both in a seamless way that just made me want to keep reading. Outside of the story, her descriptions of the woods and life in the rural and hot south were spot-on. It’s been a long time since my college days, living in the south, and having walked through a forest full of kudzu, but through her writing, I was able to transfer myself back two decades to those magical feelings I had of being surrounded by mystery and just seeming that anything is possible. I found it to be a delightful, quick-read, YA story. ( )