Review: Not quite perfect, but original!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
Dark Luck is a collection of three short horror stories and a preview of a novel. Truth to tell, I have it on my Kindle and when I started reading, I realized that I have already read these stories. Surprize, surprize - I did enjoy them the second time around. The best about Kizer's writing is: 1. Original plot. The Dark Luck time-machine get-rich scheme has been used over and over again, but still, this one is a completely new angle. The hitchhiker is about two-serial killers accidental encounter - also not a completely novel idea, but with a new twist. Finally, Sixtus, the best of the three, about an a-moral teenager who, literally, gives the world the finger. Again, one can see similar ideas in Vashtar, but since the Bible, not a single completely new plot has been invented. 2. The writing style. It is factual, dispassionate, journalistic or chronicle-like, but to me smelling of dark humor too. Perfect for blood-curdling pieces.Why only four stars? There is a famous riddle, why does the elephant have a tail? And the answer is -  so it won't end too abruptly.  Two of the Kizer's tales have practically no tails. Please, Mr. Kizer, re-write them. I would love to give you the fifth star.