The Secret Text By Holly Lisle Review
Reread Book: Vincalis the Agitator Author: Holly Lisle Pages: 301 Hard Core Scale: 1.5/4 Normal Scale: 7/10 Publish Date: 2002 About: The boy Wrath can walk through the gates that others cannot. Born in the warrens he wanders into the noble boy Solandar and becomes friends. Together both will start a dream to aid the impoverished people of Wrath’s part of the city, but at what cost? Review: I remember likening this book twenty years ago up and remember its beginning and end with perfect clarity. Its middle though escaped my brain and played out very differently then I remember. This is something I would call writing savant. Sometimes the prose is brilliant and other times an editor should have been “WHAT are you DOING!” Sentences randomly garble themselves with something off randomly and lack a subject or purpose. The story hits some amazing beats and then there are things that conflict with the work’s purpose of could have been cut entirely. However, I am going to put p...