Five star review for lessons in Discovery

[charlie_cochrane]

Thanks to Aunt Lynn over at Reviews by Jessewave

"The stories are well-written and -plotted, liberally laced with smart humor."

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Woot! Well done! I don't know what's taking so long with SINs review. I shall have to do it myself - what a chore! Not.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I think Louise has started reading it - new version.

And thanks, tootsie.

[jestana.livejournal.com]

W00t! *happy dance* That's wonderful news!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, sweetie pie.

[tamara-allen.livejournal.com]

Dead-on review. I think this is your best book. Whomever it was that said you made an old trope fresh--that's true. I've never seen it work better or more romantically.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetheart.

I'm sure it helped that I didn't know that it was an old trope - to me it was an original idea (yes, sad, I know) that I had to explore!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

She's exactly right. The intelligent humor is such a wonderful touch in these stories--it keeps the emotions from ever getting too heavy, even when you're dealing with strong feelings. Lovely work.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

That's really kind, thank you. And you've summed up exactly what I feel - it's the humour in, for example, Patrick O'Brian, which allows a writer to deal with heavy stuff in an accessible and entertaining way.

[shezzawatto.livejournal.com]

Congrats. Again!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thanks, toots.

Another fan

[(Anonymous)]

I spent yesterday and then today reading books one and two and I've fallen for this beautiful, almost old fashioned relationship. Jonty and Orlando are wonderful together and the storylines well plotted and intriguing. Enjoy the secondary characters as well. I'm about to purchase Lessons in Discovery but I see it has a hanky warning. I simply cannot read to the end if it's to be an unhappy ending. These lads belong together. So... happy ending dear author? :) Deanne in Halifax

Re: Another fan

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Deanne

Thank you so much for your comment. Old fashioned? Yes, that's what my boys are.

I can promise you a happy ending (the three hankies are needed en route to it) - not least because I've got more books in this series and no-one would read them if the lads had parted brass rags. *g*

Regards

Charlie

[(Anonymous)]

I'm reading Lessons in Discovery now and am at the point where Jonty has flu. I love the chemistry between these two people who are so very much in love. I'm looking forward already to the next novel. I do have a question though. I can't seem to gauge their physical appearance. I know that Jonty is physically very fit and that Orlando is tall. In my reader's mind I see Jonty as shorter than Orlando and, perhaps, not quite as muscular. Am I correct? How do you see them? Sienna

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Sienna

I'm so glad you're enjoying the books.

I apologise for my lack of explicit info about their physical appearance - I suspect I see them so clearly in my mind that it doesn't make it to the page. Orlando is tall, thin, dark - a bit like this guy http://www.scrum.com/PICTURES/CMS/2500/2500.jpg but without the muscle. Jonty is built like a typical scrum half - smaller, stocky, unusually muscular for the time (men had quite different body shapes then). THis guy's quite close: http://helenafrithpowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/27-8-8.jpg.

Does this answer the question or do you need more?

Charlie