I have just gotten ahold of a nice review for A World Too Near, though it appeared in June.
Realms of Fantasy reviewer Jeff VanderMeer wrote:
“The second book in Kay Kenyon’s The Entire and The Rose series contintues the promise shown in book one, Bright of the Sky, a favorite of mine last year. The Entire is a marvelous parallel universe that includes a galaxy-spanning river and is populated by any number of amazing people and creatures.” He describes some of the plot surrounding the protagonist, Titus Quinn, and goes to say: “The details of Quinn’s quest make for stunning adventure fiction, while the mysteries revealed about the Entire are completely mind-blowing. Technically, this is science fiction because it’s set in the future, but more than anything it is epic fantasy and world-building on a grand scale. It would be criminal if this novel didn’t make the year’s best lists at the end of 2008.”
Of course we writers have no ego to speak of, yet we are clinically pleased to observe such positive commentaries.
In other words: