Amanda Weidensjö

Summary: This is about Eve and Michael, and life before and after the fire at Shane's house. All from Eve's point of view.  I have said it before and I will say it again, I love short stories from different character's point of view. I'm so used to reading from Claire's point of view that it's nice to have a new perspective, especially, from a Morganville native like Eve. When we are first introduced to Eve we believe from what Claire thinks that Eve is a badass, fearless and go getter. While most of it is true, what we don't see unless we read from Eve's point of view is how absolutely afraid she is of vampires, her family and her fear for her friends.  Before Claire ever came along there was Shane, Michael, and Eve which even back in high school Eve was crushing hard on Michael as written several different times in this short story. It's nice to see the trio and how they looked out for each other before Michael became first a ghost then a vampire a...

***This review will contain spoilers***  Summary: This story came about just because I wanted to know more about Myrnin for my own understanding of his character, and sometimes, the best way to achieve that is to write a character’s history from his/her point of view. The character tells me what’s important, and what changed, for better or worse. Discovering that Myrnin’s father had some type of mental disorder was important to me, because of course when he was born, such things weren’t really understood. When I was working on the draft of the first book in which Myrnin appeared, my co-worker who read it said, ‘Oh, you’ve written a bipolar character, and he’s actually really cool! Did you know that I take medication for that?’ She went on to relate all the ways he was familiar to her. I was amazed, and honoured. I won’t name the co-worker, for privacy, but I say now, as then: thank you for sharing your story with me, and you know who you are. I hope Myrnin continues to make you pro...