Post by rorschalk on Oct 9, 2024 14:29:19 GMT
Dear Mr. VC,
Ghosts has had its day on the floor and was found wanting. According to Rockefeller it was an adventure in search of a reason to be. No touching the monkey this time, but I wish you the best of luck with it elsewhere as well as perhaps another venture here in the future.
rockefeller's take on Ghosts of the soddenfall:
Ordinarily I precede these reviews with some mostly unrelated political and/or social type polemic but that hopefully serve as presage for the cap under scrutiny. Like how on October 7, the one year anniversary of Hezbollah's massacre of sundry Israeli border watchers, concert goers, et. al., I got to wondering how a country with the most heavily armed, secured and monitored border in the world, a highly trained and equipped military, a huge fleet of rapid response attack helicopters, and the "iron dome" technology to shoot down any and all incoming missiles, couldn't foresee or deter a group of mercenaries on flying bicycles' hours long slaughterfest.
Hey! Ghosts of the Soddenfal concerns the adventures of a small group of mercenary assassins! Technically okay, with a slight UK lilt. Loose, almost objective, (non-)POV.
Judging by the condition of the boy and his dog, I'm surprised anyone would think he had food, or that food would be such a huge concern for this group of professional hunters.
Found it a bit of a coincidence their bumping into the yellow-eyed (jaundiced?) man as they did.
Made it to about page 17 of 43 before skimming for some raison d'etre.
I'd send it up for more careful review if I sensed more to it than a reasonably well done, and-then-and-then sort of adventure. But no symbols or metaphors or parallels presented. In other words, insufficient light shed on a world in much need of illumination. Or maybe it just targets too young an audience for this rag. Could probably be coerced into a fine YA novella cum Netflix movie though.
Ghosts has had its day on the floor and was found wanting. According to Rockefeller it was an adventure in search of a reason to be. No touching the monkey this time, but I wish you the best of luck with it elsewhere as well as perhaps another venture here in the future.
rockefeller's take on Ghosts of the soddenfall:
Ordinarily I precede these reviews with some mostly unrelated political and/or social type polemic but that hopefully serve as presage for the cap under scrutiny. Like how on October 7, the one year anniversary of Hezbollah's massacre of sundry Israeli border watchers, concert goers, et. al., I got to wondering how a country with the most heavily armed, secured and monitored border in the world, a highly trained and equipped military, a huge fleet of rapid response attack helicopters, and the "iron dome" technology to shoot down any and all incoming missiles, couldn't foresee or deter a group of mercenaries on flying bicycles' hours long slaughterfest.
Hey! Ghosts of the Soddenfal concerns the adventures of a small group of mercenary assassins! Technically okay, with a slight UK lilt. Loose, almost objective, (non-)POV.
Judging by the condition of the boy and his dog, I'm surprised anyone would think he had food, or that food would be such a huge concern for this group of professional hunters.
Found it a bit of a coincidence their bumping into the yellow-eyed (jaundiced?) man as they did.
Made it to about page 17 of 43 before skimming for some raison d'etre.
I'd send it up for more careful review if I sensed more to it than a reasonably well done, and-then-and-then sort of adventure. But no symbols or metaphors or parallels presented. In other words, insufficient light shed on a world in much need of illumination. Or maybe it just targets too young an audience for this rag. Could probably be coerced into a fine YA novella cum Netflix movie though.
