Review: Hooked at the first nibble...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2012
I sucked at fishing. I never had the patience for sitting on a bank or a boat and waiting for a fish to bite. Well, Erik Gustafson has no problem with patience. The man clearly knows how much line to let out before he snaps that fishing rod with just enough of a carefully timed twitch to set that hook and reel the reader in. This is a great little take on the Creature in the Black Lagoon story, with a real slow drawl of an author's voice. It will take you back to those wonderful days when your dad might take you out fishing and then it will drag you down into a slow drowning nightmare and leaves you wondering just who caught who.The story will lead you through a young boy's encounter with a pair of underwater monsters. My only beef with this little story is that it feels a little like the start of what ought to be a full blown novel. I am waiting with "baited breath" - (well, my wife always tells me I smell like a dead fish) - to see if Gustafson gets off of his butt and lets this little bitty tadpole grow up into a full blown novel.Come on, Gustafson - you've already hooked us.Now reel it on in.yours in storytelling,Steve Vernon