Review: Lyrical Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
This was a novela length piece that I thoroughly enjoyed. I have rarely been so entertained  by someone telling me their story as I was by William Hill, the narrator. The story starts with William slowly realizing that a small news story in Mexico about a fever is slowly becoming a major threat to the world. How he responds to it is both wonderfully believable and poetic. William tells his story in the same fashion someone would tell you a long story sitting at a bar or over a cup of coffee, with rabbit trails explaining why people do what they did, memories that surface because something else came up and a deeply personal view of his world, by turns almost apologetic and then again not, because while William recognizes imperfections in the people around him and himself, he seems to have a deep, resigned, almost fatalistic zen worldview.