{"id":105,"date":"2010-06-11T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=105"},"modified":"2010-06-11T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:18:07","slug":"two-views-on-crawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Two Views on CRAWLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one’s from Books For Keeps<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“[…] When ‘a long line of spider-like creatures’ starts to emerge from the air vents of the theatre’s foyer, the stage is set (so to speak) for a schlock horror story which, in some moments at least, is definitely not for the faint-hearted, though it must be said that its pacing is brilliant and all the more remarkably so in a narrative which is skilfully compressed into something just under six hours of a particular evening. Horror apart, however, Enthoven’s novel merits considerable notice in its nicely observed delineation of gender roles and social nuances; this in other words is a novel for a readership some distance beyond what the horror genre usually targets.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a very positive review and I’m pleased, of course. But – like most of the reviews by adults that I seem to get for my books – it’s a bit “I wouldn’t normally like this sort of thing, but…” <\/em><\/p>\n

For contrast, here’s this:<\/p>\n

“<\/strong>Crawlers had me reading non stop for two days\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I LOVED IT. It was insane, thrilling, and how do I put this… AMAZING!!!!!”<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

An especially big thank you to Christina, 14<\/strong>, from Canada, who sent me these kind words via my Facebook profile<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one’s from Books For Keeps: “[…] When ‘a long line of spider-like creatures’ starts to emerge from the air vents of the theatre’s foyer, the stage is set (so to speak) for a schlock horror story which, in some moments at least, is definitely not for the faint-hearted, though it must be said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}