two reviews for CHILD OF THE GHOSTS

An eagle-eyed reader found two reviews of CHILD OF THE GHOSTS that I had not seen:

http://booksandmoviesreviews.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-child-of-ghosts-by-jonathan-moeller.html

http://kitsuchan.com/wp/2013/02/22/child-of-the-ghosts-jonathan-moeller/

I liked this quote from the second review.

Caina’s a voracious reader, and incredibly smart. She notices insane amounts of detail. She manages to fend off magical attacks that bend the will of countless others around her. She escapes her cell after months of torture, and refuses to give the necromancer who enslaved her the satisfaction of her losing all hope. Yet she only decides to join up with the Ghosts to avenge her father because she can’t live her lifelong dream of getting married and having kids.

I’m always pleased when people notice that, even if critically, because that is exactly what I intended for the character. I read once that the key to writing characters is to give them contradictory but equally powerful desires, and the dichotomy between who Caina is and who she wishes she could have been drives a lot of her decisions and motivations.

-JM