Review: A prolific yet consistent author
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
I've read a good lot of Nigel Bird's output by now, but there's still plenty out there I haven't gotten to. What impresses me most about his work is the variety (though he does have a few favorite themes) and high quality level. There was only one story in this batch that I found not as fully realized as the others here and in other collections. This time out, revenge was a prominent motif, but Bird treated it with the left-right of humor and sadness that for me is his prime strength. This time out, he also gives us a little poetry too: "Regret" actually had me thinking of Robert W. Service (whose background in northern England and Scotland had a little something in common with Bird's, interesting to note).