Coalescent

Nonsense. Reviews for publication just don't start off with 'I haven't read a lot of books like this, so letters from the readers advising me of similar titles which will broaden my understanding of the period/genre/style/whatever would be greatly appreciated. Having utterly undercut my argument, and used up a good portion of my world limit, I will now write a review to which you just aren't going to bother paying any attention.' LJ discussions and NYT reviews are two completely different things, and you know that very well. Everyone comes at everything with different contexts - any itelligent reader assumes that. And the nicer ones forgive it. ;P