The URSUS PERSPECTIVE has had mixed reviews thus far, as I knew it probably would. My debut novel, LAST STRAW, opens with a burst of action and does not let the reader off the action hook until the end. It garnered very positive reviews from the readers of the Psychological Thrillers group here on GR, and on Amazon, where it is for sale.

URSUS, however, is a harder book to pigeonhole into the same genre, or any genre, for that matter, and those who read it expecting something along the lines of my first offering were probably disappointed in the lack of action in the first half of it. I believe it is a better-written book, but I felt it was very important to develop the characters fully, as the novel treats many different subjects besides those of murder and mayhem. There is plenty of both in the book, but the reader must first get into the minds of the characters involved before these events begin taking place.

No matter how many times I edited and tried to introduce more action earlier in the book, I failed to be able to without making the story line sound jumpy, contrived, and out of chronological sequence, so I went with my gut and wrote it as I knew it should be written, even though I knew some readers would condemn it as "too slow" in the beginning.

If any of you do decide to read this novel, please be aware of what I have written here. I think you will enjoy it, but patience is a virtue...

DRJ