Review: Great storytelling
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2012
I don't know why I postponed reading this book so much, I think I was afraid it would be too angsty, but it wasn't. Many complained about the length of the book, saying that it's too short, but I appreciated the way it focused on the pivotal moments of the lives of the characters.When we meet the three skin cursed friends - and the witness - after the fateful encounter with a wizard, some time has passed. We see how the rash has affected the lives of the shallow Fallon, Todd and Jake. Since they are shallow, but they are not stupid, it doesn't take long for them to realize how empty their ways were.Fallon, who is a movement coach, begins to appreciate a taxi driver who wants to learn to be a drag queen. Todd, who works at a funeral home, finally begins to see how nice Gabriel, a make-up artist for the dead, is. Jake, an ambitious literary agent, begins to acknowledge his feelings for the writer David, who is the fourth protagonist of the story and our insider.The moral of the story is clear, and it reads indeed as a fairy tale, but it has a few moments that I found really moving - to the point I got misty-eyed (for example when Fallon wipes away the make-up from Tyler).The wizard and his lover in the story are recurring characters from another series, that I should bump up my to-be-read pile. I really really like K.Z. Snow's writing style.