Review: Whoa--excellent, excellent story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2011
The main character is fascinating, the minor characters equally so.  The mystical aspects of are believable and never over the top..and boy are you left with the feeling you have read something good.Looking at the author's other titles I suspect he is often the writer of horror, this is one not.  It's a little harder to pigeonhole however and trying to describe what makes it so might put out too many spoilers (it's not 'urban fantasy'--quite rural, the 'paranormal' aspects are very understated etc. Maybe someone else can name the category better).Basically it is about a man, who due to circumstances of life, has found himself as a bouncer.  He does well with his job, his past is interesting and as the story moves on, you find out more about him.  He meets a stranger who claims to have magic and offers to share.  Several people in the story take the stranger up on it, and the results are what we are reading about.This is exactly what a short story should be--the characters are allowed to unfold without a lot of 'explaining' that takes you out of the story like so many other authors do--particularly in short stories.  When you finish, you still feel for the characters.  And you still wonder.I read this as a Kindle book, and it had about 400 'locations' of story content, plus the usual copyright blurb and some sample material for other work by the author.  The only thing that ever pulled me out of the story had nothing to do with the excellent tale, but (I think) due to a spell checker fail.  A 'whoa' becamce a 'woe' and a 'veracity' became a 'voracity'.From the copywright page this was written/published originally in 2003, which tells me his newer works are likely to be even better.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and I WILL be looking at his other stuff (even though I strongly suspect it's not my typical reading...)JTG