Review: Fantastical Little Diversion
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
This was a fantastical little diversion, is the best way I can describe it. Amusing, albeit a little…pointless, although I don’t really say that as a bad thing. Entertainment for entertainment’s sake is never a bad thing, but there didn’t feel to be any serious drive to the story. So it was simply a quickly paced, whimsical little story about magical beings (although we learn very little about them) who like to interfere, for better or worse, with humanity. A common trope, but still fun.Though as I’m the twisted sort, I found Death to be the more amusing. Personifications of Death are usually funny and morbid, and I like that.The ending was a bit abrupt, but in a short story, it was not ill suited. Though I might have liked just a touch more. And there were some dialog attribute habits I see from many authors that are a bit of a pet peeve of mine and were, I’ll admit, a tad distracting for my inner editor. But at this length, with its quick pace and the breezy style to its prose, it was enjoyable. Missed that spark to make me rave, but I’ll call it 4 Stars.