ON FACEBOOK, KRISTEN HELFRECHT MURRAY SENT THIS:

Dear Glenn Reynolds, I need to ask you a small favor. Could you please pass this on to Sarah A. Hoyt on of your contributors over at Instapundit.com ( http://pjmedia.com/instapundit.) She kept me up ALL DAMN NIGHT.

You see yesterday I found one of her books, “Darkship Thieves,” while doing some NYE resolution de-cluttering. Iain Murray’s former president and founder of CEI, Fred Smith (a huge Sci-Fi fan) must have given it to him and it got mixed into my stuff. “Oh goody” I thought. I have wanted to read her work since following her contributions on instapundit and Sad Puppies. So I cracked open Darkship Thieves at around 10pm last night hoping to dip into it before going to bed. AND DIDN’T SLEEP ALL NIGHT!!!!!! I literally only put the book down because I heard my daughter’s morning alarm go off at 5:30am.

The only times I have ever compulsively read through the night was when I read Jurassic Park in one night and the first three Harry Potter books in 24 hours. Yes, I am putting Ms. Hoyt in the same group as Michael Crichton and JK Rollings.

My husband woke me up around 11am and I finished the last few chapters of the book and immediately, still in my PJs, teeth unbrushed, came downstairs to write this. I know it’s my own damn fault for staying up all night – but I couldn’t put her book down. And yes, I’m going on Amazon after I clean up and get dressed to buy the other two books in her series.

Thank you Ms. Hoyt. I’m tired but jazzed from reading a fantastic story. I wish I could have put it down and gotten some sleep but thank you for pulling me into a whole new world. Damn it.

I apologize for nothing.