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

[summersdream.livejournal.com]

"Yes I meant for Stephanie to come off as dumb as a box of rocks
Is that what JE meant to do? Because it is what she's doing right now, at least when I read them.

From what I remember from the website and fan forums, JE isn't comfortable with upping the violence and all that or making Plum darker, but she totally did that, just that she writes around it constantly. Is this a problem of series writers? Do they inevitably end up taking a series some direction that they aren't comfortable with writing and forcing it all over the place to get around this? (*points at LKH and the fear of ghey/ the introduction of the Worst Plot Device Ever aka Ardeur*)

In short if the author didn't want to keep writing both those characters would be dead from stupidity.
Sad, but true.