Given how it’s been almost three years since publication,
and the persons involved have been quite open about it since, I’m once again
going for the fact behind the veneer with this one. Serra Elinsen, as a person,
doesn’t exist. As a writer, she is the pen name of the initially titled 50
Shades Of Green project, headed by Team NChick (Lindsay, Nella and Elisa). After
the monster success of 50 Shades Of Grey, they got together and basically
crowd-sourced the next worst paranormal romance fiction book for teens, getting
ideas for character and plot and so for forth from their many Twitter
followers. It’s rare that I’ll go into a project and know pretty much every
little intent of the piece itself, which you’d think would make looking at a
book that was, by authorial admission, meant to be terrible a lot easier than
the media I usually cover on here. Well, as I have shown previously during Meta Month,
intentional badness is an abnormal form of writing but it is one that shares no
fewer potential pitfalls in its execution. If anything, this material is far
harder to pull off than it may seem. So, let’s get started with this
Lovecraftian love story, featuring hot Cthulhu.
