Review: This is Where it All Begins...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2012
So I read this, the first novella in Sketches from the Spanish Mustang, after reading all the others (except the final one, not yet released). I'm just weird like that. But the important thing here is, I read ALL of them and enjoyed all of them. Of the five I love three and really like two. This is one that I really like. The main reason for that is because I don't like Nathan James. No matter what else happened to him, there is no justification for what he plans to do. That is not to say he isn't a fascinating character but I had trouble feeling for him the way I did for the characters in the other novellas.As always, the prose is poetic without being saccharine, florid without being flamboyant. There is a very intense realism to the prose that makes this possible. Mr. Wretlind has, through these novellas, become one of my favorite contemporary authors. I do hope everyone who reads this decides to give his fiction a try. It will be well worth your time if you do.