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Old 04-30-2021, 09:42 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess View Post
On the subject of "serial" books...has anyone heard of "The Flower Letters"? It is a subscription service for $10.00 a month, or $124 per year where you receive 2 snail mail letters a month, telling a story during the time of WW2.

Here's the blurb:

Our stories are told through letters written between characters. Our first collection is told through 24 letters.

Subscribe and look forward to receiving 2 letters every month, for a year. Each month, one of the letters will contain a postcard you can send to a friend, or keep for your own collection. Be on the lookout for a few surprises too!

Our stories are interactive historical fiction and center around a certain era or historical event. We hope this inspires you to research these events to enrich your experience with The Flower Letters.

Also, be sure to save your letters - you might need them later!


I'm not seeing anything to make this sound tempting or interesting. Supposedly each letter is hand folded and stuffed. I'm not a fan of books that are basically correspondence. I did enjoy Up the Down Staircase years ago, but it was more memos than actual letters.
I do like epistolary novels, done well. However, this has all the earmarks of grossly overpriced twee trash. I would be absolutely gobsmacked if the letters weren’t chock full of anachronisms, that 21st century take on how things must have been during WWII.
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