Review: Pet Shop Boys, well-written but lacking
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
I'm feeling like a traitor here, giving this three stars when it's clearly written by an author at the top of her game: the dialog tight, the promise of a plot... Uh, hmmm, maybe that's the problem, that 'promise' of a plot. This is definitely a precursor of 'weird and wacky things to come' and I'm on board with that. But as a stand-alone short it fell through the cracks in terms of a fully-fashioned and satisfying story. And the author is playing fast and loose with the vamp mythology (or is she??)and the creatures who look to inhabit what seems, on the face of it, a normal and very ordinary 'Verse, except for... I whizzed through it and when finished I felt ... cheated.