Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Thursday, September 6, 2012

CHARACTERS MAKING YOU WANT TO KEEP ON READING

Victor Gischler writes some of the best crime fiction around, making it look so easy.  Here, in just four sentences, he nails a character:

"Baby Sister was family, but she was also a loose cannon.  Baby Sister frightened Nikki sometimes.  There was something in the sighteen-year-old hellion that delighted in pain and cruely.  Baby Sister was the reason they'd given up on family pets"  -- Shotgun Opera (2006)

Gischler wraps the character up and ties a bow on it.  And he makes you want to keep on reading well into the night.

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