{"id":13317,"date":"2012-04-28T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2012-04-27T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:48:24","slug":"some-early-reader-feedback-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/28\/some-early-reader-feedback-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Early Reader Feedback on &#8220;The Gathering of the Lost&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12626\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-has-its-first-us-review\/gatheringofthelostt-mm-c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\" wp-image-12626 \" title=\"GatheringoftheLostt mm c\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the past month since the launch of <strong><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong> in the USA, Australia and New Zealand on 27 March, I been able to share a few early reviews, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-has-its-first-us-review\/\">here<\/a>, again <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/two-new-reviews-one-for-the-heir-of-night-one-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">here<\/a>, and just yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/two-more-reviews-one-for-the-heir-of-night-one-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s always nice to get some early reader feedback, too, so here&#8217;s a sample of comments I&#8217;ve received either through the blog or my website:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Have just finished it and it rocked&#8230; Already excited by Daughter of the Blood. Just about to sit down and re read it to make sure I haven\u2019t missed anything. Also its &#8230; raining so what better thing to do in front of an open fire than read a great book.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Emer, Ireland<\/p>\n<p><em>I just finished \u201cThe Gathering of the Lost\u201d. It is possibly the best sequel I have ever read&#8230;\u00a0<\/em> ~ Ed, New Zealand<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11204\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/catherine-asaro-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-wall-of-night-book-two\/gatheringoflost-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\" wp-image-11204 \" title=\"GatheringofLost (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AUS\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have to tell you, I really liked Heir of Night, but I LOVED The Gathering of the Lost&#8230;\u00a0honestly, fabulous.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Katherine, USA<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gathering&#8221; arrived in the mail last week&#8230; I found I couldn&#8217;t put it down and ended up with bloodshot eyes, a smile on my face, and a feeling I needed to read it all over again right away as I had missed so much from only one reading.\u00a0Thanks so much for a great series &#8211; still my favourite.&#8221;<\/em> ~ John, Australia<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The writing is like poetry, each word perfectly chosen. Don&#8217;t ever stop.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Georgette, USA<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Am the worlds most fussy reader, found heir of night series last week and finished book 2 this Easter&#8230; Looking forward to number 3&#8221;<\/em> ~ Dave, New Zealand<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have finished Gathering and it\u2019s a terrific read.&#8221; ~ <\/em>Jacqui, New Zealand<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Gathering of the Lost&#8230;is such an enjoyable read. Congratulations.&#8221;<\/em> ~Noel, Ireland<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bought Kindle version. Read it allll!!!!!!! &#8230; Really looking forward to the next installment&#8221;<\/em> ~ Tricia, West Indies<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Just finished reading &#8220;The Gathering of the Lost&#8221;.\u00a0The Heir of Night is a good book and this one is even better.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Or, Israel<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em> So there you have it<em>: <\/em>what at least some of the readers are saying<em>. <\/em>I can only say &#8220;Thank you. I am so glad you&#8217;ve all enjoyed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps, looking at the locales: &#8220;Wow, they&#8217;re reading my book, there&#8221;&#8212;as well as here! <em>\ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past month since the launch of The Gathering of the Lost in the USA, Australia and New Zealand on 27 March, I been able to share a few early reviews, here, again here, and just yesterday, here. But it&#8217;s always nice to get some early reader feedback, too, so here&#8217;s a sample of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13338,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}