This is a part of my quest to go back through and hit all the old books in an effort to garner more points to use on free books. In so doing, I download a bunch of the excerpts, slap them on the nook, and then later, offline, read through them and make notes, only to come back here to write those up at a later point.
This one has a solid hook, a fun introduction, and the character uses just enough sarcasm to make it worth reading - not so much as you get annoyed but enough to be realistic. Then of course you have the alien angle, the wish angle, and the structure of the town. The structure of the town and the descriptions of the wind and the dust were huge for me. Having (relatively) recently moved to a place where the dust and the wind kicks constantly, I never would have believed it until now, but it's a 100% accurate depiction of a particular type of location, and that level of realism is lovely to see.
This one has a solid hook, a fun introduction, and the character uses just enough sarcasm to make it worth reading - not so much as you get annoyed but enough to be realistic. Then of course you have the alien angle, the wish angle, and the structure of the town. The structure of the town and the descriptions of the wind and the dust were huge for me. Having (relatively) recently moved to a place where the dust and the wind kicks constantly, I never would have believed it until now, but it's a 100% accurate depiction of a particular type of location, and that level of realism is lovely to see.