Deep Water Reviews

Iain Wear has reviewed Deep Water over at The Bookbag.

He has some reservations which is fair enough but gives it four stars so thank you, Iain.

My favourite part was
"Quite a way before the end of Deep Water, I knew I have to see how things turn out when it all comes together."

Way to go! I’ve finished the first draft of the final book (Full Circle) and it will be the bookshops in September 2009.

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A thank you to Stuart Mayne for his aurealisXpress review of Deep Water, reproduced here with his permission:

I’m a fan of Pamela Freeman’s fantasy series, The Castings Trilogy. I’m sick of epic fantasy that deals with kings and the powerful and The Castings Trilogy gives me exactly what I want: ordinary people thrust into circumstances that are bewildering and unsettling. It is in these circumstances that we all change and it is reassuring that there are writers such as Pamela out there who want to write about the ordinary lives that are extraordinary.

The second book begins directly where the first ends, and I struggled for a time to remember what had befallen Ash, Martine and Bramble in Blood Ties. But Freeman deftly inserts any back-story explanations that are needed.

The middle novel in a trilogy can sometimes fail from lack of dramatic impetus. It can take on the aspect of the middle half of a standalone novel, developing character and plot without thought for the reader. Freeman shows her mastery of her craft by giving the reader a fully developed standalone story inside the wider work. The reader is given their fill of dramatic story and left panting, watching the author’s website (castingstrilogy.com) expectantly for the Full Circle to be completed.

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Niki Bruce
The Cairns Post
18th September 2008

Finally the next instalment in The Castings trilogy is available.

Readers return to the world of Bramble and Ash, two people fighting against the “norms” of their society, trying to find a way of stopping the mad mage Saker.

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