{"id":10113,"date":"2015-09-01T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2015-09-01T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:30:06","slug":"chicks-dig-on-my-deranged-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/chicks-dig-on-my-deranged-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicks Dig On My Deranged Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following reviewer finds my \u201cVampire Apocalypse\u201d novel warped,\u00a0stomach-churning, and so revolting she wishes she could \u201cun-read\u201d\u00a0parts of it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, she couldn\u2019t look away\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>As much as I really needed sleep, I just had to find out how this\u00a0book ended!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The author makes it impossible for me to data map anything with\u00a0even a sliver of accuracy. This is rare in novels these days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The characters in this sequel are more developed than those in\u00a0Zombie Cop (which I love). In fact, &#8220;Granny&#8221; still creeps me out,\u00a0makes me sick to my stomach, and leaves me wishing I could erase\u00a0her from my memory all together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Loved this book! I had committed to reading two chapters a day for\u00a0one week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wishful thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I read the whole book in about 4 hours time over three days!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That said, I recommend this book to anyone who likes to have their\u00a0mind bent in a messed up sort of way and to anyone who has an\u00a0appreciation for monsters and the supernatural in general.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re nitpicky about minor spelling issues&#8230;well, there&#8217;s a\u00a0note from &#8220;Fezziwig&#8221; on the very last page. Start there. \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, an admission:<\/p>\n<p>This review is from my ex-copywriting apprentice and so could be\u00a0(and, let\u2019s face it, it probably is) a bit on the, uhm, *biased*\u00a0side. Still it\u2019s true she read it in a few days and couldn\u2019t put it\u00a0down (not even for the 15 minutes it\u2019d take her to drive over\u00a0and make me a sammich\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you can read the first chapter of this and the first novel\u00a0in my \u201cEnoch Wars\u201d series free here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EnochWars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EnochWars.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also one more thing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a few weeks from finishing book 3.<\/p>\n<p>After that it gets edited and sent to the cover artist.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping it\u2019ll be published before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Something else\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following reviewer finds my \u201cVampire Apocalypse\u201d novel warped,\u00a0stomach-churning, and so revolting she wishes she could \u201cun-read\u201d\u00a0parts of it. Yet, she couldn\u2019t look away\u2026 As much as I really needed sleep, I just had to find out how this\u00a0book ended! The author makes it impossible for me to data map anything with\u00a0even a sliver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}