Review: "She was good at her job..."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
...but fat.  And therein lay Miss June Blacker's problem (but also Jenny Twist's opportunity to play with fact and fiction).Fat, until, of course, Auntie June--traveling alone, for a change, to Spain for the holidays--meets Ignacio, putting an abrupt end to her "suffocating existence as an undervalued teacher and despised, unmarried sister."Ignacio is the Mantequero, the Sacamatecas (a legendary criminal who, having killed his victims, would remove their viscera in what we might assume was only a marginally clean `n' neat surgical procedure), the one--again, according to Spanish legend--who "carries the bag...sucks the fat from your bones and puts it in his bag."  Oh, but the Mantequero is "just a story, a fairy tale to frighten children."  Or is it?I'll not give away the plotline or the ending.  For any reader on a diet (or even contemplating one), my doing so would be too much of a teaser and a temptation to binge.  But suffice it to say that Jenny Twist, in typically British style, has done a masterful job of turning certain facts into fiction to re-tell the story, the legend, perhaps the myth, of a supernatural being who resembles--albeit in courtly Spanish style--many an English rogue, blackguard or Ripper.The fictional elements aside, Jenny's 'ABOUT THE STORY' (at the conclusion of her well-spun yarn) provides some interesting background to where and how the original myth might've originated--as well as of some of the various real-life models for her mantequero (which, quite ironic for this story, translates to "grocer").One final note--and a compliment to Jenny's craft:  this story is written in flawless English.  In our self-publishing world, such a thing is the exception rather than the rule.  I congratulate her and encourage you, a potential reader, to take a look to see just how it's done.RRB11/23/13Brooklyn, New York, USA