Grunt Life was reviewed by Elitist Book Reviews (Steve Diamond) back in August. Here's a link to that review. Bottom line is that they liked it--liked it so much that in a recent interview they chose it as one of the best books of 2014 according to an interview with Stuart Charles Flynn at scflynn.com!
'Ochse has an excellent narrative voice. Line to line, paragraph to paragraph, page to page. It’s all extremely smooth. I never had to go back and reread a section for clarity—though I did reread sections because of how much I enjoyed a turn of phrase, or a character moment. The action—and there is a TON of it—is super clear and effortless to follow.' -Elitist Book Review of Grunt Life
'Weston Ochse is an awesome author. I put his stuff next to Correia and
Maberry without hesitation. While I was curious about Ochse’s work
before, now I’m excited to read it. All of it. It's pretty easy to see
that Ochse is one of the better authors for action SF out there, and
GRUNT LIFE was an absolute blast to read.' - Elitist Book Review of Grunt Life
They also selected Grunt Traitor - sequel to Grunt Life - as one of their most anticipated books of 2015. This is the first mention of Grunt Traitor in the wild and most welcome.
You can read all about Steve Diamond, Elitest Book Reviews, and their other picks at this link. Looks like I'm in terrific company with Joe Lansdale, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Larry Correia, Sarah Pinborough, Robert McCammon and others.
Very humble. Thank you Elitist Book Reviews. Solaris Books is going to be extremely happy about this.
Congratulations, Weston, and good luck with the new one!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I should have mentioned that the information came out in your interview. I think I'll go back and do that. And thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome.
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