Title: Acknowledgements
Author: Will Ludwigsen
In: Blood Lite III (Kevin J. Anderson)
Rating Out of 5: 3.5 (Liked this)
My Bookshelves: Comedy, Easy reading
Pace: Slow
Format: Short story
Publisher: Gallery Books
Year: 2012
5th sentence, 74th page: From her knowing glances to her sublime taste in hats, I couldn’t ask for a greater companion.

If these are the acknowledgments, I can’t wait to read the tale!

This acknowledgement is a great beginning to a fantasy book. The fact that the acknowledgement alone is its own short story is a little different admittedly, but one that I kind of enjoyed. And I’m more than a little disappointed by this apparent calamity of circumstances which would have made an interesting tale.

Normally I find acknowledgements boring – they don’t tell you a large amount about the people, because they’re almost designed just to thank the people who know how they’ve helped. But, the wording of this and the brilliance of the tale outlined in these nine pages kind of made this something worth reading. Although, probably only the once…

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