Review: Short Story/Novella
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2011
I had bought "Mercy" which included an excerpt from this book. The excerpt sounded insteresting, so I also bought "Club Mephisto". The first letdown was, that the book did not include a table on contents, so I had to page through to the point where the excerpt ended. I was a bit surprised to note I was somewhere around 10 or 15 percent of the overall file content. I then read the story which was quite entertaining until the end of Molly's week at the Club. After the return to her master, I was expecting some kind of development/conclusion instead of a hare-brained explanation why he sent her there - especially as my Kindle showed that I was at 65 or 69 percent of the story. The remaining 30something percent where then another excerpt from "Mercy".The story itself, I would probably have given a 3 or 3.5 due to the letdown at the end, but the low rating is based on the presentation. It's all nice to give the volume of the book in MBs, but that should not only relate to file size, but to actual book content (as in two lines in the technical description). For some books, also the page numbers are given, but I have increasingly found that a good portion at the end is devoted to promotional presentations, but over 30 percent of total volume really takes the crown!Total reading time about three hours, so more in the category novella than novel.