Terrence Malick's new film The Tree of Life played at Cannes this week, and there are suddenly dozens and dozens of reviews all over the Internet. The differences in viewers' reactions are striking, sometimes even confounding. And many of their responses read more like reactions than reviews.

There have been some wonderfully encouraging reviews and blog entries about The Ale Boy's Feast. (I'm particularly grateful for these posts by Robert Joustra, Lindsay Stallones, and Rachel Starr Thomson.) There have been some very silly ones too, including one from a blogger who declared that

What would happen if you read the books in The Auralia Thread out of order? I would have guessed that it would be pretty much impossible. Several reviews of Cyndere's Midnight and Raven's Ladder began with the reviewer saying, "I was very confused, but then

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The Auralia Thread is complete, and The Ale Boy's Feast will arrive in bookstores everywhere in mid-March. But not everybody will have to pay for them... You might win signed copies of all four volumes if you visit Graeme's Fantasy Book Review.

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“The Ale Boy’s Feast is a great, sprawling poem. Its rich language moves and breathes and awakens every sense. Jeffrey Overstreet has made something beautiful here. His story reminds us that beauty is an agent of grace.” —JONATHAN ROGERS, author of The Charlatan’s Boy “Jeffrey Overstreet writes like

“The Ale Boy’s Feast is a great, sprawling poem. Its rich language moves and breathes and awakens every sense. Jeffrey Overstreet has made something beautiful here. His story reminds us that beauty is an agent of grace.” —JONATHAN ROGERS, author of The Charlatan’s Boy “Jeffrey Overstreet writes like

In less than two weeks, I'll be turning in the first completed draft of my new book The Ale Boy's Feast. As I do, I keep getting the same response from readers: "I was surprised when the conclusion of Raven's Ladder left me