Review: The Games Men Play
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2013
This falls somewhere between a 3 star and 4 star read, for me. There are lots of great stories in this book. Most of the subject matter is dark and gritty. The emphasis is on the darker aspects of life in a big city. The characters are realistic and most of the stories are compulsive reads. It does seems more geared towards a male readership, I think. I preferred the stories in the first half of the book more than the others. The later stories were altogether a bit too depressing for my tastes. I found I had to stop reading the book for a while and come back to it after reading something a bit more lighthearted. Of course, this all comes down to personal taste. I thought the book could do with a bit of editing as I found parts of it hard to follow. On the whole, this is a good collection of short stories, full of larger than life realistic characters, and the author's talent as a storyteller shines through. I would recommend 'The Games Men Play' to readers who like gangster tales, crime fiction, and stories about the darker side of life.