*rides the last of the high*
Sep. 15th, 2007 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalyep, I got my fix yesterday, so I'm feeling a bit more human. And yes, I do mean that literally. Six months without reading a novel may just be my personal best and it's obvious that it was affecting my behavior. Fanfic keeps the edge off, but there's still nothing like devouring 350 pages in a five hour period to reset my brain.
Of the better, the clerk at barnes and noble realized he'd scanned the wrong price on the value book (history of Alexander the II for 6 bucks instead of 30). So thirty bucks for four books seems a lot better than 70!
One of the best things I have to say about Wraith is that the first person common language makes it exceedingly easy to speed read. Included in that is a scarcity of description that even has me flipping back the pages and wondering if I've somehow missed whole paragraphs because I can't visualize the scenery (which, as PT and Mona, my wonderful betas, will tell you, is a trait I'm guilty of often in my writing).
However, the novel does have strenghts, but at the same time, every strength is a weakness. It's kind of fun to see all the pop culture references in it (one character's appearance is compared to Edward James Olmos); however, these same references will mean that it doesn't really stand up well over time.
The premise is unique (to me anyway) and fun - a girl who can astral project and uses said ability to pay the bills by being a snoop for hire (via PayPal no less). Only problem is that this is so glossed over at first -- she can't tell you how or why it happens, but does tell you she's never in six years she's been doing it run into another "traveler" as she calls herself. Just a little too pat.
and then the explanations fit into the second half of the book make you think she's an idiot for a lot of reasons as well as being too full. The premise is great but the final payoff made me left really wanting. Definitely not really worth the fourteen bucks if I wasn't super jonesing for a read.
Definitely set up for followup books in a series with the number of threads left hanging, but nothing about this novel makes me want to go and buy any once they are released.
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poisontaster, you definitely need to get your novel whipped into shape and shopped out. Cause what I've read of all your original fic (and fanfic) puts this baby to shame!
Now to resist reading River of Ganges (which would take most of the weekend to do justice to from reading the first few chapters) and actually do work. hey, stop laughing, I mean it!
Of the better, the clerk at barnes and noble realized he'd scanned the wrong price on the value book (history of Alexander the II for 6 bucks instead of 30). So thirty bucks for four books seems a lot better than 70!
One of the best things I have to say about Wraith is that the first person common language makes it exceedingly easy to speed read. Included in that is a scarcity of description that even has me flipping back the pages and wondering if I've somehow missed whole paragraphs because I can't visualize the scenery (which, as PT and Mona, my wonderful betas, will tell you, is a trait I'm guilty of often in my writing).
However, the novel does have strenghts, but at the same time, every strength is a weakness. It's kind of fun to see all the pop culture references in it (one character's appearance is compared to Edward James Olmos); however, these same references will mean that it doesn't really stand up well over time.
The premise is unique (to me anyway) and fun - a girl who can astral project and uses said ability to pay the bills by being a snoop for hire (via PayPal no less). Only problem is that this is so glossed over at first -- she can't tell you how or why it happens, but does tell you she's never in six years she's been doing it run into another "traveler" as she calls herself. Just a little too pat.
and then the explanations fit into the second half of the book make you think she's an idiot for a lot of reasons as well as being too full. The premise is great but the final payoff made me left really wanting. Definitely not really worth the fourteen bucks if I wasn't super jonesing for a read.
Definitely set up for followup books in a series with the number of threads left hanging, but nothing about this novel makes me want to go and buy any once they are released.
That said,
poisontaster, you definitely need to get your novel whipped into shape and shopped out. Cause what I've read of all your original fic (and fanfic) puts this baby to shame!Now to resist reading River of Ganges (which would take most of the weekend to do justice to from reading the first few chapters) and actually do work. hey, stop laughing, I mean it!