Review: Fun (and free) side trip
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2011
To help whet readers' appetites forMercury Rises, the upcoming sequel toMercury Falls, author Robert Rroese has served up Mercury Swings, a free digital short story featuring everyone's favorite angel Mercury. In this brief tale, Mercury is sent to investigate an unscheduled development - namely the invention of jazz roughly 3800 years ahead of schedule - only to discover the ancient desert equivalent of speak-easies, gangsters and G-men. It's the kind of offbeat and very funny adventure you'd expect from Kroese, and is a good way for fans of the first novel to get reacquainted with the series' title character (as if it's possible to forget him) before Mercury Rises is released.