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CATHARSIS - PAPERBACK - COVER IMAGE DARKENED BY CREATESPACE - NEEDS TO GET FIXED BEFORE LAUNCH:
The paperback for 'Catharsis' is running into a glitch - courtesy Createspace coloring / contrast of the cover! https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...
The 2 images in the link above are of the two covers I've had to send this week to 'fix' an issue that is clearly occurring from their side - the images below are what CS has done with the covers! They replied back saying 'transparency was fixed' and 'below300DPI images will appear pixelated' - but they said the same thing about my 'Governess' cover and it turned out okay:
https://www.facebook.com/bookofnoor/p...
So right now am waiting to talk to their technical team member to ask why they are sucking out the reds and greens and enhancing the greys and black - I can hardly see the face in the blood, can you? I really cannot ‘whiten’ the front or the back any further! Digital Proofer of CS is a very reliable indicator as to how a cover will appear so am not ordering a proof and not making it available in stores till I know it’s a book cover I’d like to buy - even though most links for the paperback at Amazon, its territories and B&N are functional. Barnes and Noble even has it @ $10.06 now!
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/catha...
GIVEAWAY ON GOODREADS - 'THE GOVERNESS' (3), 'CATHARSIS' (5 COPIES)
$18.99/- 1st Sept.-1st Oct. - 3 COPIES FOR U.S. READERS'The Governess' is very special to me. And I hope that the winners will be touched by it as much as I was.
https://www.facebook.com/bookofnoor/p...
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
$10.99/- 1st Sept. - 1st Oct. - 5 COPIES FOR U.S. AND UK READERSWriting 'Catharsis' was a terrifying, intrusive process and I am sure reading it will be no different.
https://www.facebook.com/bookofnoor/p...
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
All the best to the winners. The rest can always message me on GR to get the ebook in pdf format.
Rick Ohlarik reviews 'Catharsis'
Is Aurora Fox the female equivalent of Dirty Harry?
Published 25th Jan. 2016
3-stars
Noorilhuda has written a psychological thriller that some of the other reviewers don’t seem to like. Instead they are concerned that Detective Aurora didn’t go to counselling after shooting one of the kidnappers, or the author’s prose is bad, or her characters are not realistic. Does anybody know what’s really in the mind of a pedophile or serial killer? Whatever. Anyway the novel is cleverly broken down into four days...and a few days later. And what about the characters? We have Maxwell Caine, a wacko <spoiler> who is both the father and son, </spoiler> Detective Aurora Fox who is every bit as nasty as Dirty Harry and just as focused, DA John Smith who has severe hangups, and Daniel Logan’s parents, Josh and Helena, who have a very severe love-hatred relationship (heavy on the hate). I got carried away again and forgot to tell you what the story is about. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I thought the novel wasn’t treated fairly by a some of the reviewers.......
This is where I’m going to stop the review so you can buy your own copy of this brainteaser. I liked Noorilhuda’s novel and dismissed most of the flaws, but the only one that bothered me was in the chapter named Friday. <spoiler> Clearly Josh Logan was talking with Maxwell Caine, yet the character quoted was Ethan Maxwell (I know that they are the same person but throughout the book the two people were separated in their individual dialogues). </spoiler> But with all the twists and turns in this novel, maybe I'm getting confused (not!)...go figure. This has to be the first novel that I ever read where every character had some sort of emotional disorder or schizophrenia. Do I recommend this novel? Does a bear poop in the woods?
I’m sure that my review will be heavily attacked on Amazon because I recommended the novel for what it was...a good story. Not every book has to be on the Bestseller List, does it? There were some items to criticize in Noorilhuda’s novel which I brought up, but overall I thought she was a good storyteller. And that is my main concern when reading and reviewing a novel. The prose and edit parts take a backseat to good old storytelling.
I’m only bringing this up because when I gave A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin’s last review five stars for A Dance with Dragons (see my review of 8/01/2011) and loved it...well the Amazon reviewers destroyed my review because they generally hated the novel. Even the idiots that gave one liner reviews like, “Great read” chimed in. Oh well.
By the way, the dictionary defines Catharsis as the process of releasing strong or repressed emotions. Touche Noorilhuda!
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Mr. Ohlarik reviewed the paperback version.
Review posted on Amazon.com
Link to review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R29ED39U...
Complete review on RickO.'s blog: http://ricksreviews.blogspot.com/2016...
Rick Ohlarik's blog: http://ricksreviews.blogspot.com/
Published 25th Jan. 2016
3-stars
Noorilhuda has written a psychological thriller that some of the other reviewers don’t seem to like. Instead they are concerned that Detective Aurora didn’t go to counselling after shooting one of the kidnappers, or the author’s prose is bad, or her characters are not realistic. Does anybody know what’s really in the mind of a pedophile or serial killer? Whatever. Anyway the novel is cleverly broken down into four days...and a few days later. And what about the characters? We have Maxwell Caine, a wacko <spoiler> who is both the father and son, </spoiler> Detective Aurora Fox who is every bit as nasty as Dirty Harry and just as focused, DA John Smith who has severe hangups, and Daniel Logan’s parents, Josh and Helena, who have a very severe love-hatred relationship (heavy on the hate). I got carried away again and forgot to tell you what the story is about. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I thought the novel wasn’t treated fairly by a some of the reviewers.......
This is where I’m going to stop the review so you can buy your own copy of this brainteaser. I liked Noorilhuda’s novel and dismissed most of the flaws, but the only one that bothered me was in the chapter named Friday. <spoiler> Clearly Josh Logan was talking with Maxwell Caine, yet the character quoted was Ethan Maxwell (I know that they are the same person but throughout the book the two people were separated in their individual dialogues). </spoiler> But with all the twists and turns in this novel, maybe I'm getting confused (not!)...go figure. This has to be the first novel that I ever read where every character had some sort of emotional disorder or schizophrenia. Do I recommend this novel? Does a bear poop in the woods?
I’m sure that my review will be heavily attacked on Amazon because I recommended the novel for what it was...a good story. Not every book has to be on the Bestseller List, does it? There were some items to criticize in Noorilhuda’s novel which I brought up, but overall I thought she was a good storyteller. And that is my main concern when reading and reviewing a novel. The prose and edit parts take a backseat to good old storytelling.
I’m only bringing this up because when I gave A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin’s last review five stars for A Dance with Dragons (see my review of 8/01/2011) and loved it...well the Amazon reviewers destroyed my review because they generally hated the novel. Even the idiots that gave one liner reviews like, “Great read” chimed in. Oh well.
By the way, the dictionary defines Catharsis as the process of releasing strong or repressed emotions. Touche Noorilhuda!
-----------------------------
Mr. Ohlarik reviewed the paperback version.
Review posted on Amazon.com
Link to review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R29ED39U...
Complete review on RickO.'s blog: http://ricksreviews.blogspot.com/2016...
Rick Ohlarik's blog: http://ricksreviews.blogspot.com/
Historical Novel Society reviews 'The Governess'
“The art of life is to believe … Believe in the power of God, in His better judgment, to trust Him that each person was accorded a life for a reason” – so says Jane Adams’ merchant father often to her while she’s growing up in rural 19th-century England. When he dies, Jane is forced to seek employment and finds a position as governess for the children of the wealthy Cavendish family, presided over by imperious Lady Cavendish and her wastrel nephew, whose children Jane is now enlisted to instruct in Noorilhuda’s long, detailed, and frequently absorbing novel, The Governess.Jane is a remarkable, well-drawn character, a woman who has known pain and hardship in her life and refused to let it curdle her. A great deal of the pleasure of this sedately-paced novel comes from watching her slowly and subtly change the lives of everyone connected with the Cavendish family.
The novel itself has slight style and format questions (the cover is blurry and the author’s penchant for triple-exclamation points should have been curbed by a strict editor), but the story in these pages is a very satisfying – and ultimately uplifting – one that will win over all but the most skeptical readers.
Link to review:
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/re...
Link to Reviewer (Joanna Urquhart, for HNS):
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/re...
Historical Novel Society reviews 'The Governess' (paperback)
