Posted by Okay, so anyone who looked at my batch, what’s been cut and what I’ve reviewed ppprrooobably knows the book that’s going to be announced. However, I’ll ramble about it for a bit anyway.
This will appeal to people who like grey characters, fast plotting and pacing, easy to digest prose, and a low-fantasy setting. The prose was great. The author is able to conjure a rich and engaging atmosphere using a minimal amount of words. This book is pretty short, it’s only about 200 pages and it reads very quickly. The amount of detail packed into such a short book without becoming burdensome or overwhelming is to be applauded. I’ve seen lots of good reviews for this book before it got to my batch and I was super happy that I wasn’t disappointed, and in fact it became a semifinalist.
Kristen has finished her pile and indeed has 3 semifinalists of her own. I am starting on those books now and she will start reading my entries soon. We will probably have a finalist in the next month or so — it’ll depend on what life throws at us and how much outside reading we have other than SPFBO. But, I believe this is the quickest we’ve finished our slush pile and so potentially the fastest we’ve announced a finalist as well. MOVING RIGHT ALONG!!
My final semifinalist is:
CONGRATS!!!!