Review: prologue
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
This short story is less a stand-alone plotline and more a prologue for the first novel in a series.[SPOILER ALERT]For those who've read the other work, this was probably a good story, as it shows how a young man (likely the novel's main character) grew to despise a criminal money lender. But there's not enough depth in the H (in this short story, at least) to pull me in. He only appears in the last few pages, not enough to make me want to read the next book.Perhaps if the entire short had been told from his perspective -- he watches his father, the ship's captain, go to meet with the criminal, hours of waiting while his father never returns, worries growing while the H and the crew prepare the ship for sea, then the hunt, finding the father, figuring out what happened, and so on -- perhaps that would have embued the short with enough of the H's character and personality, so that I'd want to spend more time with him.[END SPOILER]As things stand, this is a short story with a sad and open ending. It didn't do the job of selling the next book to this reader. Three stars for a solid writing style.