Darryl Shelly's Blog - Posts Tagged "writer-s-digest"

"I'm impressed by a number of things about this book: the quality of its prose, the penetrating psychological insights into its protagonist, and the unflinching way it manages to depict its subject. Anna David's blurb on the cover is quite apt: Like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, The Hobbyist has a grim, cold, bleak worldview. It's not a place that is particularly fun to visit, but you're glad you went through it, by the end.

I very much admire Shelly's boldness in writing this book, as it couldn't have been easy to be so revealing on the page. This is an extremely impressive, if grim, read."