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Harriet's avatar

This is some beautiful writing!

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Beth Kephart's avatar

I do love these opening pages in this book. These pages are Ocean at his best.

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Daniel Sheen's avatar

These first pages are basically the best bit of the book, the rest of it is highly problematic and actually very boring. Very disappointing after the raw emotional heights of his first novel

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Picking the best-written books's avatar

Hi Daniel. We don't judge the overall quality of books. We just look at the prose.

We identify the best-written books each month, and then quote their opening pages. If our readers like the prose, we encourage them to look at the book in question and decide for themselves if they like it overall.

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