Review: good if you don't mind your story in snippets
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
This is a novella. I didn't know that going in. I'm not a big fan of novellas, or as I like to call them, short stories. And this book is an excellent example of why. It's well written, has a host of interesting characters, a spattering of humour, and the start of some good world building. What it lacks is enough length to allow for any depth in of these areas, but more problematically in plot development. It isn't that the book is plotless. It's that it's only the beginning of a plot. Reading The Secret Eater is like putting a 400 page book aside after reading chapter five and never picking it back up again. There is no sense of completion.I'm the sort who prefers to wait and rent a whole TV series to watch in one go instead of watching each new episode as it's released week by week. I feel the same way about my literature. I want it all at once and make a concerted effort to avoid scenarios where I'm forced to await a continuation. I enjoyed what I read and when complete I'd be more than happy to read the story in it's entirety. However, as of now I have no intention of continuing the series. For those of you who don't mind the wait between story instalments I recommend picking this one up.I was sent an eARC by the author.