NOT VERY
If I'm going to point out the good, then I also gotta point out the bad. It's simply not fair otherwise. Now I've got something for the "Not Very" reviews column on the forthcoming Shriek website.
Jeff
(Evil Monkey: "Aren't ya crushed?" Jeff: "No. She just didn't like the book very much." Evil Monkey: "I'd be crushed." Jeff: "You should see the scars I've got from the reviews of Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Nothing phases me now." Evil Monkey: "Good point." Jeff: "This is going to be a very long campaign and some reviewers are going to hate this book. Period. There's nothing to be done about it but move on, really." Evil Monkey: "Hey--is this guy as pompous as he sounds." Jeff: "How pompous does he sound?" Evil Monkey: "100 percent." Jeff: "Then in person you either magnify that effect by 50% or you decrease it by 50%.")
posted by JeffV @ 6:59 AM
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4 Comments:
Damn those unreliable narrators! Damn you, Janice!
Wow. Sounds like she wanted another City of Saints and was disappointed when Shriek wasn't it.
ouch!
But... I'm still going to read it because I like your work :)
-a fan
Er, it's one negative review balanced against about, so far, 10 extremely positive reviews. I didn't share the review because I agreed with it--I respect the reviewer's right to her opinion but believe she's dead wrong (especially tone-deaf to the humor, intentional and unintentional, in Janice's voice). That should be implicit in anything I say about Shriek.
The thing is--this is *not* City of Saints. And the emphasis is on Janice and her brother, and only then the other Ambergris stuff.
That's all I gotta say about it.
JV
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