Review: The Strange Case of Finley Jayne Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2011
I've been eager to read "The Girl in the Steel Corset" since its release. There's been a decent amount of positive feedback, which helped increase my interest. While browsing the Kindle store, I came upon "The Strange Case of Finley Jayne", which is a free prequel novella for "The Girl in the Steel Corset". Typically, I'm all for novellas - if they increase your interest in the story/characters, then they are doing their job. This one, however, I can't really say I loved. Was the writing bad? No. Were the characters poorly written? No, in fact, Finley is a well written character. But the fact that it takes you until you hit around 60% into the story for anything really interesting to happen? Eh. It's a novella, so it's short. I wasn't expecting a lot to happen, especially given that it's a prequel (I figured it'd be a nice introduction to the characters and the world), but quite frankly, I found myself bored until a little over halfway through. Will I go on to read "The Girl in the Steel Corset"? Yes. I think Finley is an interesting character and I'd like to see what the `thing' inside of her is, I'd also like to see where her next job brings her. I didn't hate "The Strange Case of Finley Jayne", I don't want it to seem as such, but I didn't love it either. It's worth reading if you're interested in the story.