Can you believe it? I’m so pissed off at poorly written secret codes, that it brought me back to my blog, haha!
I purchased a series of Flower Letters from an Instagram ad. This one is the Norah Aven Chronicles. I’m 3 letters in and so far, they are fun, creative, and interesting. I’m not here to trash the author. I think her business is incredibly awesome and I’ll be purchasing more for sure.
BUT… And here’s the nuisance. This story has a decoder key and each letter provides a secret message from one character to another. This was absolutely thrilling at first, until I started decoding the first message. It threw me aaalll the way back to middle school when cereal boxes had toys and one was a decoder ring or something. I’m pretty sure Calvin & Hobbes even has a comic strip about this specific toy.
The “secret message” they always gave you was some drivel like “congratulations! You’ve decoded the message!” And even as a kid, I felt terrible miffed by the let down.
Well, here I am as an adult TERRIBLY MIFFED that these secret messages I’m wasting time and brain matter on are ABSOLUTELY USELESS DRIVEL. If I could say anything to the author (besides I LOVE YOU, THIS IS AWESOME, PLEASE KEEP WRITING MORE LETTERS) it would be:
… For real? … You thought these messages were a good idea? Who is your editor? I would like to slap them.
So here I am, saving some annoyed reader the frustration of decoding yet another useless message.
And, trust me, I thought about ignoring them all together…
But I can’t.
Curiosity always gets the best of me.
Every two weeks, I’ll receive a new letter. And every two weeks, I’ll decode it and post it here.
I hope you find this when you need it.
This has been,
FTC
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