To Spoil or not to Spoil

There’s a lot of hot books coming out this year still.

– Moning’s fashionably late Fall temperature spike, Faefever

– Ward’s subsequent inamorato, Lover Enshrined

– Charlaine Harris’s annual backwoods vamp barbecue, From Dead to Worse

– Gena Showalter’s spankable newest, The Darkest Night

We’ve only begun to tap the keg that makes us readers salivate in ‘08. And the Q on my mind, is…will most of us go looking for spoilers of said kegger, or will we sit back; patient and confident in our supreme strength of will? Until Ward’s Lover Unbound, I’d never indulged in spoilers, but I was also probably at my all-time high for internet cruisage too. Thank the Scribe Virgin I did though, because shit on a hot tin roof I would have hated that damn ending so much more if I hadn’t. And I still hated it aplenty. Bountiful boos and hisses for that cop out of an non-denouement. But enough of that tangent.

Can you think of any examples of spoilers that helped or hindered a particular book you read? If you’re the kind that can resist and exorcise the Demons of Spoilerdom, how do you do it? And if you choose to dine on them, just how spoiled do you like to be?

Yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Paranormalandia (aka, my Freak-ay-ness Challenge!), I shall fear no talk of straight historicals, nor contemporaries, nor romantic suspense…well maybe romantic suspense *shudders*. Pah, bring it. All genres welcome for this discussion. What are you looking forward to reading in the next several months? And if you’re feening for it, will you hold out for the book or swim the briny deep for spoilers?