I have this terrible habit of needing to know everything and not just learning things naturally. I ruin the magic of suspense when reading, watching movies, and playing games. I'm currently reading The Fairy Godmother, book one in the Five Hundred Kindoms series by Mercedes Lackey. I am 75% into the book and just started googling if Elena and Alexander have a happy ending knowing that the magic forces at play only leave the option of Alexander becoming the Cad, breaking Elena's heart or The Betrayer who steals her magic or ruins her happiness somehow. Why do I need to know that before reading it? Why is it my instinct to Google answers and not find out things for myself? It ruins the magic!
I was just thinking about this the other night. I remember in the dexter TV show, at the end of Season 4, something extreme happens. My jaw hit the floor and I had to rewind the final scene a few times before I believed what I just saw. That scene shocked me to my core. No other TV scene has ever made me feel that way. It's because I never let myself be surprised! So I'm trying so hard to not spoil things for myself. Let everything play out naturally so I'm shocked, surprised, happy, or can say Ha I knew that was coming!
Thankfully I stopped googling my Elena and Alexander question. I really want to read the end of the book and just find out for myself. It just very hard when my instinct is to ruin the surprised because I need answers and need insta gratification. This habit sucks! I'm going to work very hard on never googling things like this again because I want to the magic of being in the moment as the story unfolds and not know what will happen. Thanks for listening to my random rant of how i have a habit of spoiling books that I read. Is anyone else like this?
by CordeliaJJ