Harriet Klausner’s 5 Star review of THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR
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Harriet Klausner’s 5 Star review of THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR

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Harriet Klausner’s 5 Star review of THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR

If you look at online book reviews at all, then, sooner or later, you will read one of Harriet Klausner’s reviews. They are well written, smart, straightforward. She has a laser-like penetration of story and character. Her Amazon classic reviewer rank was #1 and she still deserves that.

So imagine my pleasure at the stellar review she gave THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR. On Amazon, she called it a “superb romantic urban fantasy” and posted 5 stars for this novel!
In part, Ms. Klausner wrote: “The Botticelli Affair is a superb romantic urban fantasy thriller that vividly takes readers on a tour of the Metropolitan, and museums and galleries in Europe. The protagonists are a fabulous pairing as he is attracted to her like no one in over five centuries and she is a kick butt Valkyrie on a mission to save her father, the painting, her beloved hybrid and her soul. Like Traci L. Slatton did with the entertaining complex Immortal, she paints a cerebral action-packed vampire tale of danger in the international world of art.”
 
Read the review here, at Ms. Klausner’s blogspot Alternative-worlds.com.
Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews
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Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews

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Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews

FALLEN enjoyed a terrific 5-star review on The Romance Reviews, which was also posted on the reviewer’s website, TicToc Reviews. This is my favorite kind of review, because the reviewer was totally engaged with the story, and she wrote with clarity and insight about why she liked the novel:

“From the beginning, I was enthralled with the story and Slatton’s voice. She has taken an end of the world scenario and created characters that are so real they make you feel. To arm such a story with the budding of a love of such heat and passion creates a crescendo of feeling that keeps you turning the pages to see what happens next.”
My husband Sabin Howard’s sculpture
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My husband Sabin Howard’s sculpture

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My husband Sabin Howard’s sculpture

He may drive me crazy: leaving his dirty bicycle shorts on the back of the dining room chair, turning off the heaters in the winter so that the apartment stays in the frigid 50’s, over-peppering the food he cooks until my tongue swells and I can barely swallow, staring at me blankly when I suggest that there is no such as thing as a Shopping Fairy who magically leaves groceries in the fridge for him to consume (has he never considered that someone, a.k.a. moi, lugs home the 5000 calories he ingests daily?)… But Sabin Howard is the greatest living figurative sculptor.

Sabin creates beauty, and I respect that.
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Jandy’s Reading Room Review of FALLEN

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Jandy's Reading Room
Jandy’s Reading Room
This book-lover keeps a rich and active review site. The affiliated blog says that the blogger is a medical librarian who loves to read, but then she asks, “Or am I a bookaholic who also is a mecial librarian?” Either way, the reading public is fortunate that her bibliophilic insights are available to us all.
The review of FALLEN arose from a close, insightful reading. She wrote,

Five months earlier, the mists started rising from the Earth. They corroded all metal – including the metal naturally found in human bodies. When a person had contact with the strange, cloudy white mists, that person would erode painfully away. Nothing could reverse the process that could take hours. No one could help because the helper couldn’t avoid the mist enveloping the first one if he tried to save the one caught.

Emma and her five-year-old daughter Mandy had been able to escape the mists. They were visiting in Paris when the mists started, separated from her husband and older daughter back in Canada. Emma started collecting other children as they avoided the mists and tried to survive. Now Emma and eight children are in the deserted French countryside, scavenging for any food they can find. They need more, though.

I was pulled into Fallen from the first few pages. Traci L. Slatton’s apocalyptic world seems eerily possible. No one knows why the mists appeared. Yet they have ravaged the buildings and metal objects in the world and killed billions of people. How does a person fight a monster like that?

…Emma is a practical person, doing what she has to to keep herself and her children alive. Both Emma and Arthur’s characters are complex, unfolding slowly as their relationship does.

…This is not a girly romance. Slatton has written an apocalyptic novel with a romance built in – like most good stories should have.Fallen is excellent. I’ll have to watch for the sequel.