Review: Brilliant Talent, Perfect Storytelling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
Patria L. Dunn holds the keys to the very heights of YA fiction. This is the first time I have read her work, picking her book at random from an app called Book Buddy, and I do feel self-assured that Dunn has the potential to reach the same recognition that J. K. Rowling has.A modern YA novel entwining classic fable elements with the perfect dash of action, romance, fantasy, and simply darn good writing for any age, I whole-heartedly give Goldilocks 5 stars. A particular technique I noticed was a flawless ability to foreshadow upcoming plot elements without diminishing their full impact when later unveiled nor leaving the reader bewildered at their initial introduction. Such foreshadowing is a very fine line that few can handle as adroitly as Dunn has.~EDIT 26March14~My Kindle edition was unfortunately riddled with strange, rather disruptive punctuation errors; however, I surmised that they were due to a format transition to Kindle. I did email Dunn concerning the format errors, and she very gracefully acknowledged there has been software difficulties. I have a notion that I got my hands on an older version, which was somehow pulled by my Book Buddy app, prior to Feburary 2014 as Dunne had said she had placed a 4th text revision at that time frame. The original errors did not dissuade me from an unreserved 5 stars, and through this personal assurance that further readers will not encounter these Kindle errors only adds the respect I hold.I say with pure seriousness, I had the opportunity to discover and read Suzzane Collins' Hunger Games when she was the merest blip on the literary world's awareness, and I hope to see Dunn rise to the same level of craft and adulation.