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I think I agree; taking criticism from other writers is difficult to contemplate.
On one hand, you have the benefit of experience as well as the simple advantage of having another pair of eyes looking at your work. On the other hand, writers are eternally going to consider their own creations at least palatable. Either that, or they consider themselves artistic geniuses.
Those people can be hard to take criticism from. Also, since the creative arts are entirely subjective, the thriller writer may not have much to say about the high fantasy offering. Critiquing the writing style? Well, that can be pretty damn objective too.
Your own writing, for example, nomesque. Though it shames me to say, I haven't finished Dead(ish), but what I can say what I did read was that it was stylistically different than things I've read?
Is this bad? Hell no. Will it scare some people, even perhaps moving them to lash out in a nastier fashion? Yeah, sadly. It's the internet; people like to spew their emotional extremes.
Of course, don't take my word for it, I only have a few reviews so far, and nothing has been particularly scathing, so I don't have much advice to provide.
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