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Greer Gilman: Cloud & Ashes
Oct. 8th, 2009 09:19 pmDeclaration of interest: Greer Gilman is a client and a friend (at least in LJ terms and, I hope, in the usual sense of the word as well). More to the point, I am a fan: I have loved everything that I have hitherto read of hers, and am disposed to love everything that I will read hereafter. Don't come to me for an unbiased opinion.
Yet I'm hesitant about discussing Cloud & Ashes in public, because it has received some wonderful reviews elsewhere: not just positive reviews from people whose good opinion of value, but reviews which are subtle and perceptive, but reviews which are, in themselves, beautifully expressed, which carry some of the flavour of the book. They talk, with a competence I lack, about the power, the erudition, the poetry of the text.
( Cut, because I can't be relied on to recognise a spoiler when I see one )
Cloud & Ashes isn't a "couldn't put it down" sort of book. I loved it, and it still took me about a month to read it; it's quite long, and very, very rich. After a few pages I'd have to stop and digest what I'd read. I don't think that's a bad thing - indeed, I was in no hurry to reach the end, I didn't want it to be over.
Yet I'm hesitant about discussing Cloud & Ashes in public, because it has received some wonderful reviews elsewhere: not just positive reviews from people whose good opinion of value, but reviews which are subtle and perceptive, but reviews which are, in themselves, beautifully expressed, which carry some of the flavour of the book. They talk, with a competence I lack, about the power, the erudition, the poetry of the text.
( Cut, because I can't be relied on to recognise a spoiler when I see one )
Cloud & Ashes isn't a "couldn't put it down" sort of book. I loved it, and it still took me about a month to read it; it's quite long, and very, very rich. After a few pages I'd have to stop and digest what I'd read. I don't think that's a bad thing - indeed, I was in no hurry to reach the end, I didn't want it to be over.
