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“The Blair Witch Book Trailer”

Cassandra Neace

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Cassandra Neace is a high school English teacher in Houston. When she's not in the classroom, she reads books and writes about them. She prides herself on her ability to recommend a book for most any occasion. She can be found on Instagram @read_write_make

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It would probably have taken me a while to stumble across the trailer for  Rhiann Ellis’ novel After Life on my own.  The book is being re-released by Amazon, and I have such conflicted feelings about them these days that I would have hesitated before checking it out. But it’s also for a book from Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries, and that compensates for some of my misgivings. I trust her opinion.

I also trust Margaret Atwood. It was a tweet from her that alerted me to the existence of the trailer.  When she said she that the trailer had convinced her to buy the book, I took note. She went on to call it “fetching. Sort of the Blair Witch Book Trailer.” I had to watch.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZYca5PHsqo[/youtube]

So what do you think? Was this trailer so good that it convinced you to buy the book?

I’m really, really tempted.