Review: Strengths win over flaws, just
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
Particularly at the beginning - when it spends several pages describing a man standing on a balcony, then suddenly informs us, when he goes inside, that he is seven feet tall - this story tends to take three sentences to say what could be said in one. It's grandiose, and for a humorous tale certainly seems to take itself extremely seriously.It's a bit like the eponymous vampire in that way.I mostly ended up forgiving this because it was a well-turned story, though I spotted the ending a mile off. The eccentric characters are amusing, though certainly ill-assorted (I never quite believed that the efficient Edwin Windsor would choose an angry, anarchic dwarf as his lawyer).All in all, I'm caught between enjoying its strengths and being very conscious of its flaws. Strengths win, I think, though not by enough that I'll seek out the rest of the series.