My review of Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde has been published over the the Santa Fe Writers Project.
There’s something compelling about a Jasper Fforde novel, something that sucks you into the story, tossing you alg until the end when it finally grinds you up and spits you out before you even know what’s happened. Fforde is a true satirist, not just pulling apart the way we tell stories, but pulling apart accepted critical conventions and putting them back together again, reinterpreting criticism and analysis from the inside out.
My review of Ali Shaw’s The Girl With Glass Feet is up over at the Santa Fe Writers Project.
. For the first chapter or so, the novel held up. Lines like “It was a darkening afternoon whose final shafts of light passed between trees, swung across the earth like searchlights,” drew me into St. Hauda’s Land, setting up yet more expectations. Then it all fell flat…
My first review for the
at an editorial meeting, I’d call it “dystopian contemporary YA meets 
