Review: Two-legged terrier and the start of insanity
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
When Eric wilson described Alice Brimble as snippy, this was not what I was expecting. She turned outt o be far better than my imagination could come up with. Told through the perspective of her caretaker (Jane from Eric's short story Amelia's Last Secret), this story had a great view on the overtly popularized "Mayan Doomsday" craze, as well certain mysteries going on, and not always dealing with the doomsday event.Alice Brimble just wants to go to her ancestors' homeland, see the ruins, take in the beauty of the landscapes... and tell off the doomsayers in her own snippy way. While there, however, a well-connected criminal takes over and kidnaps Alice and Jane and wants something back. Something that he believes Jane has. Alice and Jane feel like escaping but have one thing keeping them from doing so. Alice's typewriter. The smae one she uses to type her stories out. Also teh same on given to her by her late husband several years before.Even before the kidnapping happens, Eric's brand of subtle humor comes into full play from the air trip to Mexico to a cab ride full of laughs and dangerous driving. Not to mention Jane's view of two men that she can't stop thinking about and Alice trying to get Jane's head out of the clouds. Not easy.Since this was a short story, this will end shortly on this note: with the cliffhanger ending, it's getting my interested whetted for the next Alice adventure. Can't wait for the next good time.