Another Review of WELL OF SORROWS!

[jpskewedthrone]

Aha! It appears that vespican has posted a review of Well of Sorrows in the last day or so. Check it out!

Also discovered the reviews for the book on www.barnesandnoble.com yesterday and was happy to see that they were all good, including a review from VOYA. Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to review the books in all of the various locations online!

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's a lovely book, with a wonderful atmosphere and a really engaging and different world. I am intending to put a review on my website soonish, though I am rather behind with my reviewing, alas. I promise to be good about the small outbreak of Britishness that I when I started reading it, too...

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Let me know when you post your review and I'll link to it. And what do you mean,a small outbreak of Britishness? *grin*

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Will do.
It went something like this.
Me: 'The hero is called Colin.'
The marquis: 'Not Colin Landwaster or anything like that?'
Me: No. He's only 12.'
The marquis: 'Oh, okay.' (Colin is not a very cool name over here. In fact, it's rather the opposite.)
Me:' On the other hand, he's from Andover.'
The m: 'Is this urban fantasy?'
Me: 'No. It's an imagined world fantasy. Andover seems to be an empire.'
Cue minor outbreak of Britishness about a empire based on Andover, which is not very big nor very exciting -- think somewhere like Oak Forest Illinois. There may have been accountancy jokes.
Having said which, I love the book.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Colin had negative connotations in England. This series probably won't be that popular over there then.

And Andover came from it being the "lAND OVER" the sea. I'm not that good with making up names of things on the fly while writing. Like suddenly needing a name for a character I didn't expect or something. Colin was the name for ages before I sat down to write the book though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

You are not responsible for the random ways in which readers insist on reacting. It's a lovely book.

[vespican.livejournal.com]

Hope the review does justice to the book.

Dave

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Of course it does. Thanks for taking the time to write and post it!