Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
Facts About Me: Serial Series Reader
I've probably mentioned this before, but I'm a serial series-reader. I can't help myself. If I like book 1 in a series, then I'm generally 99% going to love every book that comes after it. Which means that I'm likely to buy the series in paperback. Which means that I'm almost 100% going to re-read the series, from start to finish, again. And again.
However, people think I'm nuts! No kidding. And it's because I can't read a book in a series without re-reading all the previous books first.
For example: book 9 in the Lavender Shores series is releasing Dec 25th, 2018. I've read and 5-starred every book in the series so far. I was lucky enough to get the book from the author, as an ARC, for review. But, I can't read it without going back and reading the previous book. Normally – and I do stress that this is almost true 99% of the time – I would go back to book 1 and re-read every single book in the series so far. I can't do that with this book, because I did that just a few months ago when book 8 released, and I don't have time to read 8 novels, before I delve into book 9. But, I will definitely re-read book 8, to recap.
Why do I do this?
Simple. Book series are a series because all the characters, the town, the theme, are linked. Whatever ties the series together, you're going to run into previous/future characters, you're going to read something that – unless the author is super clever about writing it – is going to be confusing, because it refers to past events in the series. The author of Lavender Shores IS super clever, so that's never an issue. But, I LOVE to see all the subtle, little hints of previous books and characters. For example, I loved getting to read book 7 and see one of the main characters from book 1 walking his fugly dogs and checking that the MC of book 7 was okay. That's the kind of detail that made me fall in love with the series in the first place. It wasn't a huge event. It wasn't something that would make you want to read book 1, but for those of us who have followed the series through every single book, it's those little things that make it worth the time and effort we put into the reading. And inspire me to want to be a better author.
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