![]() ![]() I’m fond of the way I set up The Robots of Gotham, with all my main characters trapped in a Chicago hotel in the middle of an unfolding robot apocalypse, but - as several readers have helpfully now pointed out - chapter after chapter, that constant “action and return” becomes repetitive, especially in a longer book. I think that’s right on point, and it’s exactly the kind of thing I need to hear as I plunge into writing the second book. That’s too bad as the world-building is unique and interesting. ![]() The complexity and depth of this novel is wonderful, yet its impact is greatly diminished by a video-game pacing… this formula is tiresome. In fact, one of the best insights on my book came from a negative review by Goodreads member Jrubino, who wrote: Yes, you’ll always find the occasional 1-star, 1-word review (“Unreadable’ was my favorite), but I was able to get something useful out of pretty much every other negative review, and quite a bit more than that from many. Always a pleasure to see those 4- and 5-star reviews of course, but in the end I found those readers able to articulate problems were far more valuable. Goodreads is filled with amateur reviewers, but I discovered many of them had spot-on critiques of my first novel. ![]() It started two years ago, while I was religiously checking the great feedback on my just-released The Robots of Gotham. I’ve come to rely on Goodreads more and more often for unbiased book reviews. ![]()
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