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[Qwerty]

As posted by Zencat in the CBn Quick News section, amazon already has a review of SilverFin.

"As a fan of Ian Fleming's original Bond novels, I was eager to discover how Charlie Higson would tackle the famous spy's first adventures as a 1930s school boy. Would he be able to produce the same style of page turning adventure? Would the dry Fleming wit be present? Most importantly, would I recognise in this young boy the future hero of millions of people around the globe? Happily, the answer to all these questions is a resounding "YES!"."

The full review is in the link.

Seems to be an enthusiastic start.

[DLibrasnow]

Hmmm...probably written by some chap named C. Higson no doubt.

[Qwerty]

Ah, I'm not being too judgemental this early. I eagerly await to read the full novel and not just chapters or snippets to see how it is.

[zencat]

You'll notice I put "customer" in quotes. Feels planted to me...but we'll see.

[Jim]

It's publishers' grubby mittwork, quite plainly. I've written some of these myself and the breathless rhetorical questioning, complete absence of plot detail and uncritical enthusiasm is a dead giveaway. Standard practice.

Ignore, except insofar as they believe they have to do this.

[DLibrasnow]

You'll notice I put "customer" in quotes. Feels planted to me...but we'll see.

Exactly what I was getting at. It smacks of promotional marketing and I'm sure Higson isn't above it.

After all the screenwriter for 'King Arthur' wrote a review of his own movie on Amazon

[Simon]

We're all so splendidly media savvy.

Perhaps the marketing peeps will start to recognise the redundancy of such reviews.

[zencat]

They could have at least thrown in a nice big typo. Maybe Ian Flemming (?)