Review: Queen of twists
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
"Heaven's Closed" by Lucy Pireel consists of two highly original, imaginative and excellently executed short stories. with clever plotting and twists.Heaven's Gate, the name of story one, is a place recently shut by the city administration to stop drug dealing and prostitution. We follow the encounter of two strangers at the place but what appears to be a hook up between a prostitute and a client turns into something else.The second story involves a 2013/2014 New Years Eve Party, two sisters and Archangels in a love rivalry.I have read several of Pireel's other work and have come to admire her sharp wit and dialogue, her almost instant deep and unique characterisation of protagonists and her talent to turn a plot or story around without obvious set ups. Both stories surprised and entertained me and stuck with me after I had finished them. Never going for the obvious and keeping her reader on their toes this is masterful story telling.