I recommend the article below, by Carol Kean, to anyone interested in reading a fascinating literary rant from a professional reviewer who reads over a hundred books a year.
In addition to being a great article, she actually mentions me (she read and reviewed “Kick” recently).
As Jim Butcher once said, “My gast has been thoroughly flabbered.”
http://www.perihelionsf.com/1405/article_3.htm
John L. Monk 
Excellent article! And praise for Kick! I’d be wowed. 🙂
I am wowed hehe 🙂
LOL! Love it. By the way, you refer to me as "he" – In addition to it being a great article, he // actually mentions me (she read and reviews "Kick" recently).
That was a typo 🙂 I left off the ‘s’ and then fixed it. I was tired, was on a conference call while I wrote this up on the sly. My apologies!