Nice to get another opinion on this, so thank you. :-)

It was... interesting... writing the one for Harald. I genuinely liked the book, but I also know that it took a while to get past that peculiar elliptical style that David opted for, and that the book might have been put down and not picked up again if I had not known the author and been willing to give him time to show me why I should keep reading. So while the review itself was not affected by knowing the author, my response to the book was.