Monday is here again, but not only is it time for our Feature Story, it's also the start to our Signature Week! This month's Signature Author Background and the story we are highlighting for our Signature Week is "Leopard Skin Cover" by Graeme! If you haven't already done so, you still have plenty of time to download your backgrounds, there's one both with and without a calendar, depending on what you're wanting! Enjoy this review by Wildone!

Reviewer: Wildone
Status: Complete
Word Count: 120,745

Who likes a good murder mystery? A real who dunnit caper that will have you guessing from the first chapter or ‘murder’ and keep you guessing through every chapter until the final one where the big reveal is finally made.

Graeme, our esteemed Signature Author, has just finished doing this to in his latest great story entitled Leopard Skin Cover. The only thing is, it isn’t a murder mystery but it is definitely a guessing game throughout.

The setting is in Australia and the main characters are the members of the Victorian Football League (VFL) Lilydale Leopards Fooball Club. A league one step down from the more televised and watched and followed Australian Football League.

This story can at times be a challenge, as with any sports team, there are a lot of players and thus a lot of issues and stories going on. The focal point though is that there is a gay player on the team that isn’t out to himself 100%, definitely out to his teammates or coaching staff, parents, or really anyone else that knows him. Oh, and he isn’t out to the readers either.

If sports aren’t your thing, don’t worry. This has sports as a background but it is more about the characters. This is more about finding out who the gay player is in a cast of many. Graeme adds a list of all the players and suggestions have been made to group them into their houses to help with this, which greatly helps.

The great thing about this story is that Graeme has a way of using our own assumptions to lead us down the path that we think is the correct one. Not saying he is misleading anyone, he is just giving you the fact and letting our curious minds to reason out what the best answer is. I have to admit, that after just finishing reading the last chapter of the story, I was soooooo wrong.

To add some fun to the guessing game, Graeme started a forum thread where readers are asked to make 3 possible guesses to who they think is the player early on in the story. It is interesting to see how many assumptions we all make that turn out wrong. I was very wrong .

If you want to keep yourself guessing and also finding yourself trying to get to the next chapter as quickly as possible to get more information, then this is the story for you!
On a side note, and great news, Graeme has a sequel in the works for this fantastic story and will be out in a while.