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

[pandorasblog]

Good thread. I've been wondering about this for a while. When Anne Rice's books got worse, I was puzzled at first to see that they still got positive reviews. Then I figured out that the publishers were just posting quotes from, or passages from, older reviews which talked about better books or her work in general. I'd say that, with the likes of LKH, it's a suspicious sign if you see a book jacket citing a review that doesn't mention an author's current book by name. And in AR's case, when I finally did track down one website's review of Blood Canticle, it wasn't entirely complimentary.

Another reviewer perspective on LKH: my boyfriend used to write for Holland SF, and they tore her books to pieces. I think this was the early Merry Gentry stuff...