Hi Michelle, I feel like this is as good a place as any to finally write my big gushing note to you about how much I love your books. I started reading the Cast series in December, and I was caught up through "Fury" just a couple weeks later. In reading those books, I was completely sucked into the pages; the world you painted within those pages was so vivid and spectacular that I recall those weeks spent reading as a kind of waking dream. And I wished that I would never wake up. I suppose that's why this genre of literature is often referred to as "fantasy", and yet the word does not even begin to describe the way your writing touches readers. The fallibility of your characters, the realness of their mannerisms and their emotions, reaches out to the reader in such a profoundly intimate way. Indeed, waiting for Cast in Silence is much the same as waiting for dear friends to return from a long journey -- one feels a profound sadness at their absence, and looks longingly toward their return. Your writing has touched my life in a very special way, and I just wanted to express my admiration for you and for the fantastic tales that you write, which I feel so privileged to experience as a reader. One of your many fans, Robyn
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Date: 2009-03-16 06:43 am (UTC)I feel like this is as good a place as any to finally write my big gushing note to you about how much I love your books. I started reading the Cast series in December, and I was caught up through "Fury" just a couple weeks later. In reading those books, I was completely sucked into the pages; the world you painted within those pages was so vivid and spectacular that I recall those weeks spent reading as a kind of waking dream. And I wished that I would never wake up. I suppose that's why this genre of literature is often referred to as "fantasy", and yet the word does not even begin to describe the way your writing touches readers. The fallibility of your characters, the realness of their mannerisms and their emotions, reaches out to the reader in such a profoundly intimate way. Indeed, waiting for Cast in Silence is much the same as waiting for dear friends to return from a long journey -- one feels a profound sadness at their absence, and looks longingly toward their return. Your writing has touched my life in a very special way, and I just wanted to express my admiration for you and for the fantastic tales that you write, which I feel so privileged to experience as a reader.
One of your many fans,
Robyn