Review: Strangely tasty, crunchysaltysweet, but the sheep eyeballs could be better trimmed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2011
Disclosure: I got a free copy gifted to me by the author after I responded to his offer on the Meet Our Authors forum.  No review required; I turned down the part of the offer that would have gotten me an additional 99-cent ebook of my choosing so that I could review this one without worrying I'd been compensated.Thursday Thistle is sort of like a bag of snack mix purchased from a store, the target market for which is not you, labeled entirely in languages you don't read. Some bites delicious, many bites weird, every now and then a bite that makes you screw up your face, stick out your tongue, and wonder if it was supposed to taste like that.I could tell from reading the sample that I was not the target market for this book, but there were enough tasty bites that I figured I could finish.  The full book turned out longer than I expected, and I had a hard time finishing.  I found I had to take it in smallish chunks to keep it palatable, and I hadn't succeeded in acquiring a taste for everything by the end.The delicious:  Oh, the characterizations!  I loved Thursday herself, odd as she was.  I was also a fan of the plot line, and the hallucinogenic style that pulled me through the weird bits.The sheep eyeballs: In this category I'd put about a dozen sentences I had to read multiple times before I could figure out what was meant, due to insufficient punctuation or erroneous punctuation or awkward construction.  That need to re-read pulled me out of the story enough that it spoiled my enjoyment. There were also a few places where Thursday knew things she shouldn't have known. Some of that may be stylistic difference, and people who like sheep eyeballs will not be bothered. Some things were not: the word "breath" is used many times where "breathe" was clearly meant; "where" is substituted for "were" multiple times.  Other than those two confusions, the grammar/spelling was clean enough that it didn't interrupt the flow, the unfortunate typo on the very first page notwithstanding.I found the sex scenes to be disturbing and un-erotic, but I think they were meant to be that way.If you like the sample, you will almost certainly like the book.I would not necessarily read more books by this author, but I would definitely check out samples of any more books.