Review: Take it or leave it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
Overall, I'm afraid I found this disappointing. The writing is generally good and as a portrait of one man's despair it's initially quite compelling. But that's all it is. It just goes on... and on. A man has a tragedy, falls to bits, keeps falling to bits, falls to bits some more and SPOILER ALERT! - eventually gets it back together again.The 'sinister trench-coated figure' referred to in the blurb is also a con. He's not sinister and the truth is so mundane and boring when it comes that it's all a big anti-climax.This was billed as a novella. It could have made an excellent short, short story.Oh, and how come the cat killed a baby bird in the garden. It was January. No birds would have been thinking about laying eggs!