Lovely review of Speak Its Name
Sep. 7th, 2008 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesFrom Cocktail Reviews:
This is what they said about Hard & Fast ....the style – including the summaries at the start of each chapter, really evoke the serialised fiction of the period. It’s very genteel yet charmingly whimsical. The language is bang on, with gentle humour and more than one tip of the hat to Jane Austen. This was my favourite of the three stories in the anthology, mainly due to Geoffrey’s exquisitely drawn, self-deprecating character and the nuances he notices in everyone and everything around him. The romance is also the cleverest of the three, an accomplished comedy of manners that plays off perfectly until the end of the story. 5 Flutes.
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It's nice they realised that it was supposed to be a pastiche - I don't think it was as good a one as I wanted it to be, frankly, because it started off with a fair amount of vicious humour which it lost as it progressed - but it's very nice that someone noticed the "jokes". No-one noticed the Four Feathers allusion yet though!
:)
Tomorrow: Busy. Or else.
This is what they said about Hard & Fast ....the style – including the summaries at the start of each chapter, really evoke the serialised fiction of the period. It’s very genteel yet charmingly whimsical. The language is bang on, with gentle humour and more than one tip of the hat to Jane Austen. This was my favourite of the three stories in the anthology, mainly due to Geoffrey’s exquisitely drawn, self-deprecating character and the nuances he notices in everyone and everything around him. The romance is also the cleverest of the three, an accomplished comedy of manners that plays off perfectly until the end of the story. 5 Flutes.
Read the rest of the review here.
It's nice they realised that it was supposed to be a pastiche - I don't think it was as good a one as I wanted it to be, frankly, because it started off with a fair amount of vicious humour which it lost as it progressed - but it's very nice that someone noticed the "jokes". No-one noticed the Four Feathers allusion yet though!
:)
Tomorrow: Busy. Or else.
