Review: Good story, but not enough for the price
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2012
I love Blake Crouch. This story was no exception.  I was riveted until the end.Unfortunately, that took all of twenty minutes.The biggest downfall to Blake Crouch (and other authors, including J.A. Konrath, I'm talking to you) is their annoying habit of padding their short stories with tiresome interviews.  Sure, he has clever answers.  He's a clever guy.  But that kind of inane banter is well more suited to a blog post. The other "padding" trick is to throw a bunch of "previews" of books on the end to try to seduce me into reading your other material.  If you tell a good story, then I'll probably check it out on my own.This story, while delightfully written in that creepy manner that we expect of Mr. Crouch, was certainly not worth $3.  It is actually so short, don't expect to see a "sample" of it at the end of any other Crouch stories either - being so short, the sample of the story would have to only be 3 lines long.