Reviews
“Libraries interested in engaging audio books will find Vold Book’s Oceans of Curtains not only a fine acquisition, but a surprisingly powerful recommendation for book clubs that may be open to considering audio books.
“If only one example of a superior audio book were to be chosen for illustration of its special strengths, it should be Vold Book’s Oceans of Curtains.”
"A delirious plunge into a mystical new world. There are plenty of moments that feel allegorical - this is fiction that is a timely reminder to follow facts. Setting a novel to music is beyond ambitious, making this a truly unique audiobook experience. The surreal landscapes and dream-like events are well-matched to the intimate and organic compositions. This novel is a mind-bending combination of mixed media art, philosophy, and social science, within an enigmatic storyline that is both heady and rewarding, offering a cathartic degree of cultural critique." —Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★
“A dense and challenging fantasy novel for dedicated genre fans.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Imagine His Dark Materials filtered through the cosmic awe of Hyperion and the layered, self-aware structure of Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun….
“Overall, this is a very specific, very committed vision. It won’t necessarily be for readers who want a clean, single-genre narrative typical of fantasy. But for those who like densely packed cosmological fiction, and are willing to meet an opus that demands the attention of both a novel and a concept album, Vold Book’s Oceans of Curtains is exactly that: a complex, strange, carefully built transmission, where the soundtrack really does change the shape of the story, resulting in a devoutly unique work of both fiction and music.” —The Independent Review of Books
“‘Glances from a future time tumbled down into Pandara’s opened mind,’ writes musician/author Trautman deep into this challenging, often elliptical journey between past and future, dreams and reality, and worlds split apart at the heart of the galaxy.… [But] Trautman has vision and, at the book’s best, imaginative and philosophical power. Readers who persist will find jolting surprises, a humane and outraged morality, and rousing considerations of the role of the individual in the collective (…) Trautman’s epic is neither easy to read nor forget.” —BookLife Reviews by Publishers Weekly