Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
We had to do two chapters last time. This time we only have the one.
I would love one or more of the novelists out there in the readership (I know you’re there) to explain how you decide on chapter breaks on long stories like this. I’ve done my share of prose, but only in short story form. Not just in the Op-Center books but in a few other novels I’ve done for this series I’ve found chapters that were too short, chapters that to me as a reader felt like they should have been one chapter, and of course chapters that feel like I actually read something without reading more than one chapter. I doubt it’s an exact science, and every author has their own way of deciding. That’s why I’m curious. Do an article if you have a site or just mention something in the comments.
Well that, and the way chapters are done in this series confuse me. At least we have chapter numbers in this book, and I’m guessing the scene changes are a factor, given that each chapter starts with a location and time, like a movie or TV show would do. To my knowledge there wasn’t an Op-Center series, but there was one based on Net Force, a novel series of which I actually own a book from and will tackle when this and the next novel in the Op-Center series are tackled. That will be a while given how I review books, and this one will probably go into the new year at this rate. Whatever the case it’s time to see what happens in this chapter.
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