Uzodinma Iweala reviewed Matthew Eck's The Farther Shore in yesterday's New York Times. It's not a complete homerun of a review. Iweala praises Eck's "ability to bring us straight into the devastation, all its sights and sounds whirling around us as they whirl around Stantz and his comrades" and points out that his "writing is best when it vivifies the danger: making us feel the heat of the explosions, see the billowing black smoke or hear the sound of an antiaircraft gun." But the critic also asserts that "Eck’s writing could also use more rhythm, and more emotional emphasis. Sometimes awkward and stilted, his prose can stumble over itself."
Eck Reviewed in The Times
Uzodinma Iweala reviewed Matthew Eck's The Farther Shore in yesterday's New York Times. It's not a complete homerun of a review. Iweala praises Eck's "ability to bring us straight into the devastation, all its sights and sounds whirling around us as they whirl around Stantz and his comrades" and points out that his "writing is best when it vivifies the danger: making us feel the heat of the explosions, see the billowing black smoke or hear the sound of an antiaircraft gun." But the critic also asserts that "Eck’s writing could also use more rhythm, and more emotional emphasis. Sometimes awkward and stilted, his prose can stumble over itself."