Mouse and Dragon Poll: May Contain Spoilers!

[rolanni]

This poll asks you to read something and then answer some questions. Please feel free to leave opinions and observations in comments.

Part One:
Aelliana Caylon has escaped her abusive family. She's found love in her starship co-pilot--a man who turns out to be the leader of Korval, the most powerful clan of the Liaden Universe®. But destiny never intended an easy life for Aelliana. Insidious  forces within the empire are determined that a new line of Korval heirs be destroyed and that Clan Korval itself be blasted to interplanetary dust. The fight for the future of the Liaden Universe® is on, and one heroine is determined to protect her family and her soulmate at all costs!


Part Two:
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Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

I don't exactly NOT read the synopsis, but... Well, if I'd read the synopsis on the last book I bought (Stephen Gould's Seventh Sigma) I would have immediately put it down and not bought it. Instead I read the author's name, picked up the book, and started looking for where the story started. Since the book involves an alien invasion of Earth and I am rather scarred by David Gerrold's War against the Cthorr series, and the synopsis reveals the alien invasion plotline... All bad. Skipping the synopsis meant I got to enjoy the book.

If I've never run into the author before, the synopsis is more important. But for the most part, I'm only checking the synopsis when I can't trust the author to tell me a story without putting hedges around what kind of story is ok. In some cases, that's a very friendly thing on both sides, and usually the publisher will make it very easy for me to figure out whether I want a particular book or not before I even get to the synopsis. In others, it isn't friendly at all, and chances are I will stop reading the author sooner or later.