Review: Alternate Reality and the Ties that Bind
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2011
Magenta (Maggie to her nearest & dearest)is a traveller in between planes of existence... for hire.This quick and breathless tale takes the reader immediately by the throat as the story begins, literally, in the maw of a demon. Childs' alternate world will no doubt draw comparisons in the reader's mind to early Clive Barker, in that the surroundings are immediate, lush, and completely believable.One very refreshing thing about this story is that it features a marriage NOT on the rocks. Too often, stories seem to insert a broken marriage into their plot as if it were a packet of gravy thickener. Not so here. To the contrary, it is Magenta's devotion to her husband and his to her that makes the story so gripping and immediate.This story serves as a fabulous introduction to a character with a very promising future. Do yourself a favour, and meet "Magenta."