Review: Good Quick Reads
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2012
Choices: The reaper must save his daughter from eternal bondage to Death.This is a continuation of the story in the first book and it was quite good, I liked the character a lot and the whole premise. 3.5*sSiren: This was very short and sweet but likable. 2.5*sMuse: Unfortunately, I just didn't get this at all. 1*Mourning: A Son's Good-bye. Told from the sons' POV of the man in book 1, something to think about. 2.5*sEscape: I Liked it. 3*sWraith: Anne, Wraith and Lena must find a way to break the curse before it destroys them all. - Again really good, stood out as one of two best stories and I enjoyed it. 3.5*sExtra Short Story! Fairy FoiblesA quite funny story about the best intentions turning into the worst possible outcomes. 3*sI am reviewing these books together, in my opinion they could have been one book. I enjoyed these short stories, some weren't more than a page long but always thought provoking. I would say they were easy to read, quite imaginative and a nice way to spend a couple of hours. I think what made these books for me were the longer stories - Choices & Wraith. I would love to see a longer book of them, maybe brought up to date in the modern world. I think they would make a good read by modernising them and maybe introducing a romantic element, it would do wonders for them and I would read it. I only had a problem with Muse, I just didn't get it at all, but that didn't affect the rest of the book at all which was good. I didn't like the way Choices and Wraith were split over the two books either, if it were me and I needed to split them, I would have part one at the beginning of the book and part two at the end, one larger story per book not split and put in separate books, what if a reader couldn't get hold of book two and was left unsatisfied - I like a conclusion not to be left in the air. All in all though it was a nice read with some good short stories, I liked it.