Well, the book is coming along, and I'm anticipating finishing the first draft long before my self-imposed deadline. Yeah, it's as much a shock to me as to anyone else, trust me. But for some reason, the act of setting myself a public deadline (and opening myself up to judgment should I fail to meet it) seems to have lit an even bigger fire under
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I think Diana Wynne Jones is a master of this, particularly in...well, pretty much every book she's ever written. Also, ENDER'S GAME, by Orson Scott Card (and one of my favorite books) has a very good reveal that kind of changes everything. More recently, I read THE DEMON'S LEXICON by Sarah Rees Brennan. It had a very good, creative twist (though I did kind of anticipate that one).
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Dude, Ender's Game! How could I have forgotten that one? I still love that book despite having first read it when I was really young. A lot of the books I loved when I was like 12 are not exactly my favorites anymore, but that one has endured. I still go "OMG!" at the end of that book even though I know it's coming. I think the secret is that it affects the characters (mostly Ender himself) so profoundly that even if you know the twist is coming, seeing it hit him is affecting every single time. I'll have to keep that in mind...
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To answer your question, I'll take Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead as an example.
Okay, I was trying to explain it without giving away spoilers, but it's too complicated. Let's just say one twist shocked me BIG TIME, another twist didn't (I saw it coming and was internally screaming for the MC to realize it) but a smaller detail made me go "Oh, that's why he was mentioned earlier... It was for a REASON."
Also, nothing to do with twists, but Richelle Mead pulled something off that could have been really badly handled and make me go "Seriously?"
-Kayleigh
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Actually, I've had people telling me to read those books for a while now. I've been resisting because I have come to dislike modern vampire fiction (call me a snob, but I miss the good old days when vampires were SCARY) but I've heard good things. I might have to investigate!
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-Strigoi: scary, strong, can't go out in the sun, undead, need blood
-Dhampir: can go out in the sun, very strong, protect the Moroi, eat normal food
-Moroi: weak (compared to the other two kinds), can go out in the sun but it will hurt them, need blood
VA is the best vampire series of books I've EVER read. And like I said, Richelle Mead pulled something off brilliantly. It could have gone SO wrong and it didn't. Also: hot guys such as Dimitri and Adrian. Always a plus. But seriously, that series is amazing. I stayed up until 3 in the morning reading Spirit Bound! *sigh* Gotta wait until November for the next and final one. BUT she's doing a 6-book spinoff series focusing on other characters!
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I thought the ending of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones had a pretty good twist. It wasn't so much a reveal as shock that what happened would actually happen.
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Siiigh. Yeah, one of these day you're going to get me to actually read that book all the way through. :( Maybe it will be a project to undertake while I'm here and have an uninterrupted chunk of time...
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