Comments on: The Final Countdown

By: Hoyt Streeby

Hoyt Streeby — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:03:14 +0000

Heh Gerard, such a man

By: scott westerfeld

scott westerfeld — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:35:15 +0000

It seems I liked it more than you, though I agree with many of your issues. However, I think the heroine isn’t ugly by modern standards. It’s just that she’s got a Roman nose and olive skin, which makes her unmarriageable in polite London society. She could be Penelope Cruz, say, with a slightly bigger nose. A hottie to us, and attractive outside the narrow aesthetic (and racist) dictates of her class. She’s only deemed beautiful by outsiders: a Scottish werewolf, an American, and a vampire who’s seen fashions come and go for a few centuries. But she doesn’t see her beauty herself.

And that’s one of the things that makes the book interesting. Also, I like me some quantifiable soul.

Like you, I’m hoping that the potential is realized in the rest of the series.

By: SÃ¤n

SÃ¤n — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:28:21 +0000

I feel compelled to mention that there really aren’t more facts in those links–just more people citing the same source. I completely believe Amazon is guilty of pulling the dick move it looks like they did, but somehow it just bothers me to watch everyone decide it when we only have instinct and history to go on, nothing concrete.

That said, nothing will stop me from buying your books. Even if I cannot get them through any bookstore ever, I will pay hot men dressed as werewolves to bring you fistfuls of cash and a SASE big enough to fit a printed out manuscript

By: danne cole

danne cole — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:27:45 +0000

I’m reading Soulless right now. I really want to like this book because it was screaming “something different” from the cover and the back blurb. Inside is a different story. It just isn’t moving along. Thanks for the honesty