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Best wishes

Hector Macdonald
Editor, Book Drum

I’m so glad that you reviewed Soulless, and good luck on your vampire review project. I believe reviews to be subjective and I respect your opinion but it seems to me that you have missed the point in certain aspects. When it comes to the writing style, you thought that Carriger’s way of writing was “for no apparent reason,” but quite the contrary, the reason is luminous. Since Soulless is written in the mock-Victorian style, it does not only make sense that the writer will constantly remind the reader of his/her existence (think Henry Fielding in Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews) but that the contemporary author will do it in such a way that makes fun of this particular brand of writing. If you did not enjoy it, then that is another issue. It’s a matter of taste/preference and so we won’t get into that.

While I was reading the novel, I did not intend to “lose” myself in the story because that would mean that I had to treat it like a novel and not like a wonderful series of witty jokes about scumptous characters in an alternative, topsy-turvy Victorian world. Instead, I was constantly aware of Gail Carriger’s voice telling me what happened. And when a character does/says something candid, I’d giggle and mutter “Good one Gail.”

That doesn’t mean that the characters aren’t fleshed out or rounded. It just means that with a book of this sort, one cannot hope to avoid the voice of the author. And one mustn’t forget that this is a contemporary novel written in jest.

I’m certainly interested in other well-written vampire fiction. So I’ll be keeping an eye on this page

Cheers,

However, I do suppose that it builds the discipline into you if you do that with all of your endeavours.

Beautiful writing stands for itself - and you’re right in that some things don’t need to be explained. It takes time and experience to learn which those things are. Practice of the craft and all.

Also, Farscape! <3
Just started watching it again myself and am amazed at how well it stands up to current series. I swear that the writers must be into fanfic, for all of the angst that they put poor Chrichton through.

KeriJ

http://sissymomma.today.com

http://www.plasticmeetbrick.blogspot.com

But, with speculative fiction, that story can go anywhere.