Review: Two Great Stories, Except I Don't Get How the Ending of the Second Story Was Possible
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
This book contains two great entertaining short stories, together they'll take you around half an hour to read.Gingerbread House is the tale of a Survivor, Big Brother mixed with The Block type reality show where contestants need to renovate a house situated in thick forest in the middle of nowhere by baking the walls, making sugar windows and so forth. All was going well for the narrator until the expected visits from the hosts with their new supplies for the next challenges didn't turn up.  Gingerbread House was a fun story in that you could put yourself in their shoes. What would you do, how long would it take for you to accept the situation, would you risk leaving not knowing where you were?  As the cold snowy winter approaches, these contestants are going to have to make these decisions.  This was such a bizarre concept for a reality show but something that is possibly plausible, although they probably wouldn't go for the isolation factor, it would unfortunately probably be made on a studio sound stage or something.  I liked it, and it was nice homage to Hansel and Gretel.Joey's Undead Dog was actually my favourite of the two.  A young boy left home alone, experiences his deceased pet dog and every other dead animal he comes near coming back to life, including his lunch.  All the lessons taught to him and his friend in zombie movies on how to kill the undead seemingly aren't based on facts at all.  The only downslide to this was I don't understand how he does what he did at the end when it hadn't worked so many times before. A different ending would have enhanced this tale for me.Will definitely check out other fiction by this author.