Several months ago, I began book critiques that I call Page One Reviews.
Here’s the premise: I look at a book as if I’m an acquisitions editor and ask, “What if I got this first page as an unsolicited manuscript? What works? What questions does it raise?”
Today, as part of the CSFF blog tour, I’ll be looking at Jeffrey Overstreet’s fantasy Auralia’s Colors. You may already know Jeffrey from his nonfiction work, Through a Screen Darkly. He also blogs at The Looking Closer Journal, which has the wonderful tagline “the truth must dazzle gradually” from one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems: Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant.
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