divadiane's review
4.0
Recieved this in the mail yesterday. Won it in a little contest the author held on her Author Page at FaceBook - yay! I'm about half way through and enjoying it immensely.
It's a gorgeous, slim hard cover. Brick red, fitting to the setting with wonderful artwork by Bob Eggleston. It's a limited, signed (by both author and artist) edition - mine is number 225/300, so there aren't many left!
Will comment more on the content when I've finished. But I will mention that the poems tell a story. There is an over-arching narrative to the poems that makes it quite compelling.
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I would recommend this collection! It's highly readable, and the over-arching narrative is quite compelling. In the space of just a couple poems (non of which are epic) you come to care about this woman and really want to know what happens to her. That said, there is an underlying sadness or melancholy, perhaps stemming from the hardship of leaving home and the hardship of being the first colonists on Mars, which permeates the volume. Not uplifting, but moving.
It's a gorgeous, slim hard cover. Brick red, fitting to the setting with wonderful artwork by Bob Eggleston. It's a limited, signed (by both author and artist) edition - mine is number 225/300, so there aren't many left!
Will comment more on the content when I've finished. But I will mention that the poems tell a story. There is an over-arching narrative to the poems that makes it quite compelling.
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I would recommend this collection! It's highly readable, and the over-arching narrative is quite compelling. In the space of just a couple poems (non of which are epic) you come to care about this woman and really want to know what happens to her. That said, there is an underlying sadness or melancholy, perhaps stemming from the hardship of leaving home and the hardship of being the first colonists on Mars, which permeates the volume. Not uplifting, but moving.
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