Review: Camelot reborn in the Old West
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2013
A short, quick read, WILLOW, WISH FOR ME kept me smiling from start to finish -- and chuckling aloud in a number of places. As with most shorts, readers shouldn't expect intricate plot twists or a slow build to a heart-pounding climax and HEA. What they should expect is a delightful romp with plenty of reason to suspend disbelief.Rogers employs a deft hand with humor, character development, and scene-setting. The genre-bending tricks the author plays on readers (and characters) are fun, not distracting. The result is a breezy tale that moves right along from start to finish.And speaking of characters.... The hero, heroine, villain and his henchmen are fun to watch, but the animals steal the show. Merlin the mule narrates the first and last chapters with aplomb, but the chicken's performance is Oscar-worthy.