This is beautifully written, and the world feels both fully realized and compelling. The vulgar yet powerful Graemor is QUITE creepy and ominous enough to lend an active sense of threat to the story, even if we didn't have Olivia's strange partial memories of her former life (???) and ability to se... view book

Margaret, this has such a lovely sense of melancholy -- every sadness mixed with hope, and every hope with loss. The set-up, secretly noble twins separated at birth, could be pure melodrama (which I will admit I would have liked anyway), but the delicacy and depth of your writing keep this from hap... view book

Hi Patrick! I'm not sure what I was expecting exactly -- but definitely not a sort of agricultural Clouseau. At first, the dry humor was pleasantly amusing; and then a weird thing happened. By degrees, and I'm not sure whether this is just a cumulative effect, it became flamingly hilarious. OO, ... view book

Hi Cheri! Well, I've read through chapter 4 so far, and I am more than a little worried about Tristao's promise not to let anything hurt Arethusa ever again -- the blue eyes are his (you make no bones about it, lining up the VERY interesting triangulation cleanly and without fuss), but they were as... view book

Hi Charity! Oh boy, the INTERIOR VOICE of depression, in all its glory. The irritability and the flat-out rage that, ahem, those of us who've had any dealings with depression know so well are right there in Cathy's thoughts: she's clearly ready to blow, which adds some good tension in the beginni... view book