Critics
It’s upsetting to see a well known and established writer being savaged in a review of her latest novel. But that was Elizabeth Knox’s fate in a recent review by Frances Adank (Dominion Post Your Weekend, November 2, 2013) of “Wake”.
Adank wrote that the book would “...not cheer everyone. Knox oversells and undersells, stuffs it with adjectives, tells us the same thing three times then leaves us starved asking ‘What?’” Adank goes on, “I liked only two characters by the end.”
Another reminder for novelists that literary rules have created expectations.
Adank wrote that the book would “...not cheer everyone. Knox oversells and undersells, stuffs it with adjectives, tells us the same thing three times then leaves us starved asking ‘What?’” Adank goes on, “I liked only two characters by the end.”
Another reminder for novelists that literary rules have created expectations.
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