YOU TURNED MY WORLD AROUND
I just received the last beta response for 'YOU TURNED MY WORLD AROUND' and while I do not usually share beta reviews, I feel this one embodies the title and what I tried to say with the book. (Any spoilers have been removed)
☞Pre-order Link - https://geni.us/tbAjH
Dearest Zane,
I have never struggled to finish work you have presented to me for critique. In truth, I have devoured at every opportunity your wonderful stories...
Until now...
But before I share my feelings on ‘You Turned My World Around’, be assured my struggle to finish is not a reflection on your writing, which as always, is superlative.
On this occasion, I confess myself a gibbering wreck, chewed up and spat out–close to home in many ways, this work is so intensely written and detailed from the lead character's point of view I felt immersed and catapulted back to times I have tried hard, and failed, to forget.
I am speechless at the emotion weaved into this work and feel I have read a book that is part autobiographical while knowing my mind is only trying to rationalise your words, and thank God for it because suffering on this scale is a bitter pill to swallow.
But it DOES happen as I can testify to
Anyway, I find myself veering off course. The reason for this email…
Long conversations with my Husband to sort my muddied thoughts, and out of respect for the blood, sweat and tears, the years of work it must have taken you to craft, I realised how important it was to finish what I had started–how hard it was on my emotions, and even now, after closing down my laptop, tears stain my cheeks for the pain this character endures. As overused an expression it is, my heart hurts and even though I want to shout at you, I must commend for drawing this anger from me–THIS is the hallmark of a great book and one authors must strive for.
Moving on.
The close to this part of the story rendered me Humpty Dumpty-ish, forcing me to glue myself together piece by piece, in awe at the power of your words, and how you transported your thoughts onto the page with such horrifying accuracy. Saying this, I totally understand the need to separate the book into distinct parts but my yearning to know and read the very last words of this story, if only to settle my mind which leaps about with questions, cannot be understated.
I pray for those living parallel lives with Dean, and while he may be fictitious, his story is all too often ignored.
As usual, you battle the taboo head-on, while wearing your gargantuan heart on your sleeve–if you did not cry while writing this I will eat my hat–I truly believed ‘Angel of Mine’ to be my favourite work of yours, closely followed by ‘Selling my Soul’, but this, and maybe for all the wrong reasons resonated with me and leapt to the top of the pile.
High praise indeed!
You have moved me with your words and taken me to a place and time I wrongly believed I had left behind.
Now, the wait for ‘Lost Without You’ and prayers the title does not mean what I think it does.
You have my absolute admiration, Mr Michaelson.
JC.
Ps, I note the lack of a trigger warning in the blurb... While it is not my place to advise on such matters, I feel one is justified here because the reader will not be prepared (x)
You Turned My World Around - Coming Out of the Dark: One
Check out Coming Out of the Dark - Book 2...
Lost Without You
☞Pre-order Link - https://geni.us/tbAjH
Dearest Zane,
I have never struggled to finish work you have presented to me for critique. In truth, I have devoured at every opportunity your wonderful stories...
Until now...
But before I share my feelings on ‘You Turned My World Around’, be assured my struggle to finish is not a reflection on your writing, which as always, is superlative.
On this occasion, I confess myself a gibbering wreck, chewed up and spat out–close to home in many ways, this work is so intensely written and detailed from the lead character's point of view I felt immersed and catapulted back to times I have tried hard, and failed, to forget.
I am speechless at the emotion weaved into this work and feel I have read a book that is part autobiographical while knowing my mind is only trying to rationalise your words, and thank God for it because suffering on this scale is a bitter pill to swallow.
But it DOES happen as I can testify to
Anyway, I find myself veering off course. The reason for this email…
Long conversations with my Husband to sort my muddied thoughts, and out of respect for the blood, sweat and tears, the years of work it must have taken you to craft, I realised how important it was to finish what I had started–how hard it was on my emotions, and even now, after closing down my laptop, tears stain my cheeks for the pain this character endures. As overused an expression it is, my heart hurts and even though I want to shout at you, I must commend for drawing this anger from me–THIS is the hallmark of a great book and one authors must strive for.
Moving on.
The close to this part of the story rendered me Humpty Dumpty-ish, forcing me to glue myself together piece by piece, in awe at the power of your words, and how you transported your thoughts onto the page with such horrifying accuracy. Saying this, I totally understand the need to separate the book into distinct parts but my yearning to know and read the very last words of this story, if only to settle my mind which leaps about with questions, cannot be understated.
I pray for those living parallel lives with Dean, and while he may be fictitious, his story is all too often ignored.
As usual, you battle the taboo head-on, while wearing your gargantuan heart on your sleeve–if you did not cry while writing this I will eat my hat–I truly believed ‘Angel of Mine’ to be my favourite work of yours, closely followed by ‘Selling my Soul’, but this, and maybe for all the wrong reasons resonated with me and leapt to the top of the pile.
High praise indeed!
You have moved me with your words and taken me to a place and time I wrongly believed I had left behind.
Now, the wait for ‘Lost Without You’ and prayers the title does not mean what I think it does.
You have my absolute admiration, Mr Michaelson.
JC.
Ps, I note the lack of a trigger warning in the blurb... While it is not my place to advise on such matters, I feel one is justified here because the reader will not be prepared (x)
You Turned My World Around - Coming Out of the Dark: One
Check out Coming Out of the Dark - Book 2...
Lost Without You
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