Review: excellent novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
Devil's Luck is a Disillusionist-world novella about Simon, the reckless disillusionist, and Fawna, the prognosticator.  The only thing wrong with it is that it's a novella.  Novellas are short!I love the Disillusionist series but I can't say I ever had a particular attraction to Simon, or a drive to see him get his HEA.  Luckily, Carolyn Crane is brilliant and the first few pages of Devil's Luck completely sold me on him.  The first scene at the fair is fantastic, probably my favorite in the book.  And I was fascinated to find out what, exactly, was the source of Simon's recklessness.I was also amazed at how perfectly he and Fawna were matched.  Simon, who has been pointing his middle finger at certain doom since he was a teenager...and Fawna, who has been caged by her knowledge of the future all her life.  I got the feeling that Fawna needed Simon a lot more than Simon needed Fawuna, but since he's a crazy dude and she's an amazingly accurate oracle, that's a pretty amazing dynamic to pull off.Novellas always leave me kind of unsatisfied - short!  They are short! - but, sometimes, if I like the author enough, I'll read them anyway.  Good decision, in this case.