Auraria, by Tim Westover Synopsis: A land developer buys up property in a quirky, haunted valley in late 1800’s small-town Georgia Book Review: This book came to our club’s attention via the 2012 Fall Battle of the Books, where it made it to the final round. I was very excited, as this is a self-published book, and I’m always very much in support of screwing The Man. Self-published works that garner critical acclaim while bypassing the old dinosaur gatekeepers make me all warm and fuzzy inside. So I really wanted to like this book. And I will say that the prose is beautiful. Excellently crafted; the imagery is extremely evocative. The sense of place is palpable, every page immerses one deeply into the old south. The writing is witty and charming. But… nothing happens. I like for things to happen in my books, and this wasn’t that sort of book. No one grows, there’s no excitement, nothing changes very much. It's hard to care about any of the characters. This didn’t deter several of our book club members, who still enjoyed it anyway, but I was bored to tears and had to struggle to get through it. If you listen to
SF/F Review - Auraria
SF/F Review - Auraria
SF/F Review - Auraria
Auraria, by Tim Westover Synopsis: A land developer buys up property in a quirky, haunted valley in late 1800’s small-town Georgia Book Review: This book came to our club’s attention via the 2012 Fall Battle of the Books, where it made it to the final round. I was very excited, as this is a self-published book, and I’m always very much in support of screwing The Man. Self-published works that garner critical acclaim while bypassing the old dinosaur gatekeepers make me all warm and fuzzy inside. So I really wanted to like this book. And I will say that the prose is beautiful. Excellently crafted; the imagery is extremely evocative. The sense of place is palpable, every page immerses one deeply into the old south. The writing is witty and charming. But… nothing happens. I like for things to happen in my books, and this wasn’t that sort of book. No one grows, there’s no excitement, nothing changes very much. It's hard to care about any of the characters. This didn’t deter several of our book club members, who still enjoyed it anyway, but I was bored to tears and had to struggle to get through it. If you listen to