Like tattooed convicts, they could leave the prison, but they would never really escape their past.” Their plastic jackets were cracked and peeling, and their sides were stamped in red: Greater Victoria Public Library. “They’d traveled into beds, onto the backs of toilets, and under the edges of plates, to be water-marked and food-stained. Some of that was amusing, like the description of the library book sale I thought that was a bit odd considering the medium of the story. The book itself spent a lot of time making fun of books and readers. This is like when movie trailers give away the best jokes, it drives me crazy. Then the “blurb” tells basically the entire story, ruining any surprises the book may have offered, had I not read the back first. At the top it says in huge writing “when life is changing, sometimes you have to take a LEAP of faith in yourself” and there’s a cheesy image to go with the cheesy words.
My first comment is that I really hope the back cover is completely different on the finished copy. * I received an ARC of Leap by Jodi Lundgren from Second Story Press
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