PRO reviews?

[easol.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm a bit curious -- what kind of professional reviews does LKH get? As in, from newspapers, genre mags, zines?

I know amazon (which often doesn't mirror the pro tastes) is basically filled with A) snarkers, B) troos, and C) people who consider this literary baloney on white bread, and read it because they aren't too demanding.

So has anyone seen professional reviews for LKH's books, and do they tend to be positive, "hateful" or sort of middle-of-the-road? (Particularly in St. Louis?)

(PS, on a slightly OT note, the ghastly "Talia Gryphon" is coming out with a sequel to that ghastly book)

Comments

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

According to a blurb on the back of the old-style paperback of The Laughing Corpse, yes. Also Jayne Anne Krentz, Diana Galbaldon, and J.D. Robb (isn't that a nomme de plume for Nora Roberts?). The last positive author review dates back to Obsidian Butterfly; after that they get very generic and vague: "steamy," "hot," "a thrill ride sure to please fans" etc. etc.

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

Well LC was early days.

[brightlyiburn.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opinion these days that most of those reviews aren't actually from the authors. I can't help but think that, though the authors get paid for the use of their names, they don't actually read the books and review them, for the most part. Especially considering how utterly absurd some of those little blurbs are.

[ladyvy.livejournal.com]

Both Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb are pen names for the author... Her real name is Eleanor Robertson.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

Cool! I didn't know that! :D