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This was the week that was
Erastes, Alan Chin, and a person known as Lilyraines -- three super-good reviews in three days. One great review in one week is terrific. Two is a bit startling. And three… well, three is downright freaky.
Erastes’ 5-star review is, naturally, on Speak Its Name. http://www.speakitsname.com/
She says it’s “a rich and winding story of love, obsession, disappointment and talent.” “It’s a real coming-of-age story, not in a clichéd way of ‘I’m homosexual and have to come to terms with it’ but the way that life forces Dylan to get to grips with his pride, overcome it at times, and compromise with other people, other artists. At first he’s all ‘it’s my way or nothing’ but gradually he learns to work with others, even if that sense of ‘no, I’m right, and they’ll realise it one day’ never leaves him. …in his brash young, privileged manner he thinks everything, including love, will fall into his lap, and it’s heartbreaking sometimes to see how he finds that life isn’t like that.”
Lilyraines’ review is a 4-1/2 star Top Pick that’s on http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nor/Re... I especially liked her take on the characters:
“Dylan's passion - and pigheaded stubbornness - comes through in dazzling color. Both Laurence and Geoffrey serve as balances - and counterpoints - to Dylan in different ways. Laurence is just as passionate, and as stubborn, about what he does but in a more...level....way. Sort of like turning a corner and going ‘Oh, there you are,’ with a smile at seeing an old friend. Geoffrey is as vibrant and fiery as Laurence is warm and cool. That vibrancy and fieryness serves in good measure against Dylan's own, almost mad, passion.” -- Isn’t that lovely?
I love this phrase from Alan Chin’s review: “…the reader wraps these characters around himself like a cloak on a cold night, and feels their passion and pain. Upon finishing the last page I wanted to stand, clap my hands and yell, “BRAVO.” The rest of it is at:
http://alanchinwriter.blogspot.com/ And while you’re there, read some of his other posts; they’re very interesting.
Erastes’ 5-star review is, naturally, on Speak Its Name. http://www.speakitsname.com/
She says it’s “a rich and winding story of love, obsession, disappointment and talent.” “It’s a real coming-of-age story, not in a clichéd way of ‘I’m homosexual and have to come to terms with it’ but the way that life forces Dylan to get to grips with his pride, overcome it at times, and compromise with other people, other artists. At first he’s all ‘it’s my way or nothing’ but gradually he learns to work with others, even if that sense of ‘no, I’m right, and they’ll realise it one day’ never leaves him. …in his brash young, privileged manner he thinks everything, including love, will fall into his lap, and it’s heartbreaking sometimes to see how he finds that life isn’t like that.”
Lilyraines’ review is a 4-1/2 star Top Pick that’s on http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nor/Re... I especially liked her take on the characters:
“Dylan's passion - and pigheaded stubbornness - comes through in dazzling color. Both Laurence and Geoffrey serve as balances - and counterpoints - to Dylan in different ways. Laurence is just as passionate, and as stubborn, about what he does but in a more...level....way. Sort of like turning a corner and going ‘Oh, there you are,’ with a smile at seeing an old friend. Geoffrey is as vibrant and fiery as Laurence is warm and cool. That vibrancy and fieryness serves in good measure against Dylan's own, almost mad, passion.” -- Isn’t that lovely?
I love this phrase from Alan Chin’s review: “…the reader wraps these characters around himself like a cloak on a cold night, and feels their passion and pain. Upon finishing the last page I wanted to stand, clap my hands and yell, “BRAVO.” The rest of it is at:
http://alanchinwriter.blogspot.com/ And while you’re there, read some of his other posts; they’re very interesting.
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