Review: This was different
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
I tend to like off the cuff, surreal stories and The Eclectic Prince certainly fit that bill. It’s … weird. But good! It’s fast paced and if you don’t pay attention you WILL get lost and left scratching your head wondering what planet you woke up on. It ain’t no Garden State or Breakfast Club (not that it professed to be but I think of those when I think of stories about weird but cool people). It’s darker, more chaotic, and includes things like discussions on shape shifting into Rocky Mountain Locust and Creole accented witches at the Beagle Club. At times it got a little too chaotic for me, because I had to focus every bit of my short attention span theater on it in order to know what the eff was going on. That's more on me than the author tho. When it was all over, I found myself fighting the urge to get a hamster and name him Hamsterdam, and absolutely phobic over the possibility of accidentally swallowing an inhaled bug. I'll probably read it again, and catch a whole lot I missed the first go-round.