Review: Eery rather than cozy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2011
Re the title of this review, this is good :o)I find a tad surreal setting of carnival-like party the main strength of this novelette. The characters have just the right amount of "strangeness", and faintly intimidating atmosphere is almost palpable. The fact the the direction in which the plot will develop is rather clearly telegraphed halfway through the work (to a seasoned mystery reader, provided one knows the genre this would turn out to belong to) is hardly detrimental.Other Ms Smith's works I own go up in the TBR queue!