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Reviews and Cons
Aug. 15th, 2016 10:14 amI will be driving to KCMO (Kansas City, Missouri) tomorrow to attend MidAmericon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention. Postings will be light and variable. Or maybe heavy, you never know.
In the meantime, my first novel The Mars Run got a very nice, detailed and well-thought-out review. In that review, Ellie Maloney notes However, it seemed to me that Janet was not fully in touch with her emotions, as if compartmentalizing her circumstances and relating the story to the reader in a somewhat removed manner.
Some of that "compartmentalizing" is frankly unintentional. This is a first novel, and I made several first novel errors. First person POV, for one, which is a lot harder than it looks. My other error was, I think, subjecting the POV character to too much trauma. For victims of abuse, the novel can be triggering, even though this version of the book was rewritten to reduce the amount of trauma.
Despite that, I personally like The Mars Run, and I think the right reader will like it too.
In the meantime, my first novel The Mars Run got a very nice, detailed and well-thought-out review. In that review, Ellie Maloney notes However, it seemed to me that Janet was not fully in touch with her emotions, as if compartmentalizing her circumstances and relating the story to the reader in a somewhat removed manner.
Some of that "compartmentalizing" is frankly unintentional. This is a first novel, and I made several first novel errors. First person POV, for one, which is a lot harder than it looks. My other error was, I think, subjecting the POV character to too much trauma. For victims of abuse, the novel can be triggering, even though this version of the book was rewritten to reduce the amount of trauma.
Despite that, I personally like The Mars Run, and I think the right reader will like it too.
