Mr Upstream does indeed like genre fiction, but in this case he is willing to make an exception.
John Dalmas can write. His characters are well thought out, and honestly portrayed. He can write an action scene that is at once believable and exciting. He excels in dialog and description. Why then is 'The Lion of Farside' such an appallingly bad book? Mr Upstream has been trying to figure that out for weeks.
It's a bit of a case of Frankenstein's monster. You can chop up athletes and movie stars and models, harvest their perfect limbs and organs and stitch them together with the greatest of care, but at the end of the day, you still get a lumpy, mismatched monster that people call an 'abomination'. Mr Upstream should know. Boy, howdy.
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