From a new Amazon review of One Fall.
In a sense, the book is kind of like wrestling itself. You see it, pause in your surfing to check it out for a moment, and then suddenly realize that you’ve been watching for a goodly while and gotten caught up in the flow of things. You might feel a slight rush of embarrassment that a “sophisticated” person such as yourself got roped in, but as long as nobody is around to make fun of you for it, you keep watching because it really is a kind of fun way to kill an afternoon. So go ahead and give this one a try. It’ll be on your Kindle or other e-reading device so nobody can tell you aren’t really reading Oprah’s latest recommendation. I won’t tell. I promise.
As an author, it’s always rewarding when a reader “gets it.” You put your stuff out there with a certain outcome in mind–you want the reader to feel a certain way and you imagine your work will have a particular effect. But it doesn’t always work out like you expect. Readers interpret your work in whatever way makes sense to them, and as an author you have to let go and let the book be what your readers think it is.
But it’s still exciting when you see that you and a reader were on exactly the same wavelength. I meant for the reader’s experience of One Fall to be exactly as this reviewer described it.
