This looks well-done. The opening wolf narration is a little more gripping and original than the more normal stuff that ensues over the next few chapters, I'd say--I'm not sure what to compare it to but the sort of really dexterous psychological realities somebody like Stephen King can present i... view book

I'm not even going to mention that comic, literarily valid prose is overwhelmingly overrepresented by UK dudes on this site--since I mention it every single time I start looking through these books, looking for something readable. It's weird. Although people sometimes glance at your book if it's... view book

I think this might be a solid, gripping style. You might want to edit a bit here and there? I don't know. It's all so subjective. You become focused on sheer incompetence, looking at these manuscripts, when probably a larger psychological dynamic is far more relevant to any normal reader. I am r... view book

Kind of reminds me of Will Self's "Sweet Smell of Psychosis" at points. It's difficult to comment on the grippingness and thrust of the story when you've only read a few chapters, but that's really all one could critique it on, as everything else is sprightly and talented and engaging, so far as I c... view book

This looked initially perhaps over-mannered (in a Dickensian stylistic sense,) but I think it justifies itself. It's definitely vital and maybe even populist. I'm trying to grasp what makes a book potentially gripping, in any sense (highbrow or lowbrow)--as I sort of zone out around chapter 5. I zon... view book