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I bought an eBook copy of the book through Amazon. The decision to review and all opinions are my own.
Seeing as this a nonfiction, writing craft book, my review format is a little different. There are no characters and no plot but there is a whole lot of writing style.
Within these pages, the author goes in depth on the craft of writing better sentences, thus better scenes within your novels. She discusses anything and everything from basic sentence structure, description, dialogue, word usage, and more.
The Anatomy of Prose packs a punch and has a lot of useful information without bombarding you. It’s easy to read and the author has a humorous, conversational tone. At the end of each section is a bulleted summary list of takeaways from the section allowing you to easily go back and search for something to need to look up.
If I were still in college, this would be a great textbook for a creative writing class. There are topics that you learn in elementary school, such as the meaning and use of personification, which is touched upon in this book but it goes much deeper than a dry explanation with dull examples.
This is the third book in the Better Writers series (not including the workbooks) and I think it’s the best one yet.
The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences by Sacha Black
Conclusion
Buy the Workbook Companion Read My Review of 10 Steps to Hero Read My Review of 13 Steps to Evil
