Review: Interesting Book, for 99 Cents You Get Your Money's Worth
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
While these are short stories, some related, in toto...all the stories, there are a lot of pages, a lot of reading, some good, some.. boring. But I need to, again, make a disclaimer. This is a magical gender transformation book and that's not really my favorite genre, though I seem to get pulled into reading...this and other, 'adventure', books for..reasons I am not sure. Sometimes it might be the sexy cover, which this book does not have, and that is truth in advertising, as this is not a sexy book. Stating that this is not a, 'sexy book', is a killer review right there for many, but there are many redeemable things in these stories. For sure, it is five star for writing, very very well written, good writer. Five star for length, 'books' that are really just pamphlets written in a few hours while watching Lord of the Rings or some other movie over and over, are a pet peeve of mine. Okay...length very good.. writing.. very good.. and also, plots, some better than others, are very very good. Extremely imaginative detailed plots. I liked that, Five Stars. Three Stars...for detail. The author seemed to want to go to great detail to demonstrate his great knowledge, or research into the subject, but..  really, often it was way too much detail, a plethora of minutia. All in all I am glad that I bought it, glad that I read it, but don't want to read any more similar. I was curious too because I, at an earlier age, did a lot of backpacking in the Ouachita Mountains, mainly on the Indian Territory side. My recollection of it (I only did it in summer, usually August) as a VERY hot, humid, inhospitable place, grass/bushes thick with chiggers, masses of ticks, many dropping on us from the trees, many times almost stepping right on Copperhead Snakes. the only water along the way was usually from disgusting stagnant pools. But for some reason, back then, it was a lot of fun. Never found a mysterious inn, nor did anyone have a gender transformation, that I was aware of.