Comments on: Review | Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman

By: Harrison Holtz

Harrison Holtz — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:22:38 +0000

Aiden I really enjoyed this review. This is one of the reason I like to visit so many blogs as I’m able to find books I have never heard of and in turn give them a chance.

I’m intrigued by this novel, and the vignettes from secondary characters reflecting their experiences with the three main characters is something you don’t see often. It’ll be interesting to see how Pamela handled these.

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:22:07 +0000

Its nice to see an author take criticism of her work in such a mature way.

@aidan: enjoyed the review, by the way

By: Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:28:50 +0000

Hope you like it. I’d be happy to do an interview – it’s a great site. As for taking it in stride, I’m a firm believer in listening hard to any kind of criticism. I workshop all my books and I welcome editorial comments. It’s the only way you improve. So thanks!

By: aidan

aidan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:10 +0000

edifanob,

I think you’ll enjoy Blood Ties. Freeman’s prose isn’t s), but rather just honed from her experience writing for a younger audience. Despite my reservations, her prose was one of the nicest things about the novel!

Pamela,

Glad you could take it all in stride! Sorry for the mixup, looking at your web site, it seemed like you had a few YA books under your belt! Like I said, though, 17 (!!) books under anyone’s belt is certainly fantastic experience.

I’ll drop you a line soon about doing an interview. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the jump from children’s books to adult novels.

I’ll be sure to give Deep Water a shot sometime in the future.

By: Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:53:57 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Aidan. I haven’t actually written YA – my books have been for actual children, rather than teenagers, so the transition to adult writing was quite a jump. I think Deep Water is a better book in a lot of ways to Blood Ties – I hope you do too!

By: edifanob

edifanob — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:18:05 +0000

I like Brent Week’s novels. So I should like Pamela Freeman too. I think I understood what you wanted to say about prose and content.
Maybe this is a bitdifferent for me. I’m not a native English speaker. So form time to time I like to read books with a more simplistic prose.

Anyway I will put Pamela Freeman on my TBR list.
And not to forget to mention your review which gave me the reason to do it.

By: aidan

aidan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:08:23 +0000

That’s a great analogy, James. I’ve debated giving Weeks’ novels a try, but I’m worried that I’d have the same issues that I did with Blood Ties.

By: James (Speculative Horizons)

James (Speculative Horizons) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:11:12 +0000

Good review, Aiden. It’s always a problem when the prose and content don’t seem to match up. I had a similar problem with Brent Weeks’ debut novel – plenty of violence and ‘mature’ themes, but the prose was rather simplistic and lacked the dark edge that the material needed. It’s a bit like pouring water on top of oil – the two just don’t mix properly.