Review: Where's the Rest of It?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2012
I'm only writing a review because the nature of the piece was misrepresented in the description. This is not a short story, as stated in the description. It's a teaser for the rest of the book. I think it's perfectly fine to offer short stories and first chapters as a freebie teaser, but it should be clearly stated in the description. There was a reference to the story being part of the Intuition collection, however, I would certainly hope that the author is competent enough to know how to conclude a short story.In fairness, I downloaded this because it was one of the most popular freebie short stories for the day and I was curious to see why. I am still clueless.The concept is a cutsy - twins with different paranormal abilities work together to rescue peoeple, but I was interested to see how the author introduced the abilities and then resolved the conflict in the story. The action begins to kick in at around 55-60% on my Kindle screen, so when I turned the page into the final paragraph of a cliffhanger and discovered that the remaining 40% of the material wasn't the conclusion of the story, but instead a lengthy advertisement for the book, I was extremely disappointed.It's listed in the contemporary fantasy section, but I would put it in young adult. The writing is simplistic. The author definitely leads the reader's thought process and assumes the reader is downright dumb at times. If you're 12 and bored, this is probably a great choice for you.I'm giving it a two stars instead of one because it was well-written for what it was and well-editted.-- Emma D, aka Anna Zimmerman