Review: Too short for what it wants to be
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2011
Although the writing was good enough to draw me in, give me reason to care about the characters, I would have called this a short story, not a novella.At the same time, whether a short story, novella, or novel, a story requires a beginning, a middle, and and end. This one read like the beginning of a longer piece. The author chose a reasonable place to stop - meaning the reader isn't left hanging with unresolved plot-threads - but without the sense that the story is over. More like the chapter is done and you're waiting for what happens next to lead up to a climax.If this were part of a larger story I would be interested in what happened to the characters, but as a stand-alone short story it just sort of introduces the characters and how they met, rather than following up with the "middle" and "end" parts I would expect.