well, I don’t really know what to say…
Saloon at the Edge of Everywhere is a book very much along the lines of Pratchett or Adams. It has humour in it at just the right moments, and the descriptions of some of the characters are amusing. Places in the book had me smiling to myself, and others had me wincing at the ineptitude of some of the characters.
There is the occasional repetition, where the author describes something and then later on describes it again almost to a tee. Ignore that though as it is only occasional and fleshes out a scene a little more. The beginning of the book has a cast of the characters along with their races, detailing how they look and how they react to situations and their nicknames. After all, we call Plaice, Turbot and Dover Sole “flat fish”, so why not aliens.
The book is sometimes rude, from the perspective of one…
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Pouring My Art Out 
A bit of a mixed review there, but like Trent said reviews generate interest, so I hope your book sales perk up!
me too
Haven’t read it yet. I know, I know. *hangs head in shame* It is on my kindle though…
That being said, not sure what to make of the review, other than to say getting reviews generates interest, interest generates sales. So, it’s all good.
I am not complaining
I don’t remember any repetitions – or maybe there were, but they did not bother me.
I don’t remember them either, but I don’t remember much. The good thing is that this review feels so very real.
This is a real review 🙂
well… right.
Nice review — congratulations!
Thanks… makes me feel legit…
Don’t let it go to your head!
I won’t… because he also pointed out some of the flaws…
This book reminded me of the Pratchett books, and Adams and Tom Sharpe’s Blott on the Landscape. I read two of Pratchett’s, I couldn’t get into Adams or Sharpe but this I could. I enjoyed it although I did find the first bit a little hard going. As Whip Wasps turn up though, you see why you wrote it in that way as it lays the background for the Warlord, the Slug, the helpers and most importantly, Arthur Blacke. I will be reading your second book once I have got through a couple of others 🙂
I think the pace builds continuously through four books… I had to lay some groundwork
All stories need a start and that start is not usually “in your face”. Doing so will leave the reader with a headache. You have to see the way that it is going. It is a good book 🙂
I was originally going to do the first four books as one big book, which might have made more sense with the pacing.
It may have done, but I think splitting them is better. If you read a big book with buildup, you are less likely to carry on reading. I know I have given up on a book because I have seen the size of it and thought it was going to carry on the same. It is better to pace it up and then the start of each next book is a short build up and you already know what the pace is going to be like 🙂
I like the way it starts as just a regular day on a regular alien space station, and you get to know some characters, and then stuff starts to happen, and then more stuff… and all the stuff is really part of one big thing, but you don’t learn that till much later…
I love what the Wasp Whips really are. That made me laugh. That and the Whalepede. I laughed out loud with the “splat” of that one 😀
I do like the scene where they are trying to pull VarnTa off the Whalepede’s tongue…
HAHA Don’t do that when I am eating something Are you trying to choke me? LOL
The books are supposed to have moments where, if you are eating, you will literally choke on your food and die…
That’ll cut your readership down
True, but people will take it as a challenge
Yeah, can do live challenges like the old Japanese program that I can’t remember the name of
I saw some of those… crazy stunts and stuff?
Yeah that’s the ones
that show was awesome
It was so funny. We only saw parts of it on a tv program over here that had clips from around the world. I just googles it and it is Endurance. Like drinking 4 liters of water not being able to go for a pee
some of it looked dangerous
I think it was. Holding things up by the testicles. Makes me cringe just thinking about it
It just ain’t right…