Kirkus excerpt

[jhetley]

"The characterizations are quite vivid, and the central conceit solid enough, but Hetley shows little interest in making his story cohere. Quite forgettable in the end, but readers will likely come back for more, thanks to the author's well-rendered characters."

Thus doth The Reviewer make fools of us all.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Pull quote!

...characterizations ... vivid, central conceit solid ... readers will ... come back for more, thanks to the author's well-rendered characters.

g,d,r

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I'd go for the 'readers will... come back for more' part myself.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Feh. It's only a reviewer, not The Reviewer.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Or of himself...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I tell myself that the plot _is_ coherent -- the reviewer just lacked sufficient intellectual capacity to follow it...

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

You don't want your plot top stick together as parts of the same mass, like particles of flour forming a paste - is that a statement you should disagree with? Who wants a blob of story mass?