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RE: NZ Book Month: author 4 - Essie Summers
I enjoy your New Zealand book reviews. I enjoy novels set in areas I am familiar with ... I found a couple of authors that write stories based in Minneapolis where I lived for 8 years. I also have read New Orleans based writers when I lived there. And now read a couple of authors that write about California. Adds another layer of interest in the story.
That is one reason I think I'm not such a fan of sci-fi - when the setting is completely 'made up' and I cannot picture it in any relateable way; and I think you are right in that it adds a little something when you can say "oh, I know that place!" when reading. :)