Review: First Experience of Darcia Helle's Writing, I Liked What Was Here, But First Kill Reads Like Something's Missing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2012
I'd never heard of Darcia Helle before coming across this ten minute long at most short story.  I liked the main character in this one, I liked how the action and graphic descriptions of scenes were written. I definitely felt like I was there, watching what was going on.  I'll definitely be checking out longer books by this author due to how good the writing in this is. However because the story is so short, we're just dropped mid way into a scene.  I would have liked to have read it from the beginning.  Throughout the story the guy being killed keeps asking for an opportunity to explain.  Therefore I was expecting a revelation or twist in the story such as the victim not being what he was accused of.  The story is so short that we never get an opportunity to find out much about the victim at all, let alone what he could possibly have had to tell us. Therefore when you get to the end there's a feeling of unanswered questions. However like I said I really liked what there actually was to read, I'd really like to revisit the hit man and learn more about him in lengthier reads.