New Review! Grimm meets Shelley?
The Girl With No Name got a new review from Sandra Lopez at Sandra's Book Club.
My favorite part: "This was like reading one of Grimm’s fairy tales combined with Shelley’s Frankenstein."
Why yes, writers do squee. The Grimm thing was rather deliberate but getting compared to Shelley was wonderfully unexpected. This is good literary company to keep.
Sandra didn't love my decision not to name a majority of the characters instead, using identifiers like the butcher, the bookseller, etc. And I can understand that. It's a fairytale thing, and I enjoyed playing it up for this first little kick-off. The rest of the series follows more traditional naming patterns though.
My favorite part: "This was like reading one of Grimm’s fairy tales combined with Shelley’s Frankenstein."
Why yes, writers do squee. The Grimm thing was rather deliberate but getting compared to Shelley was wonderfully unexpected. This is good literary company to keep.
Sandra didn't love my decision not to name a majority of the characters instead, using identifiers like the butcher, the bookseller, etc. And I can understand that. It's a fairytale thing, and I enjoyed playing it up for this first little kick-off. The rest of the series follows more traditional naming patterns though.