Review: Not one of my personal favorites, but good atmosphere....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
2.5 stars.This story had some great atmosphere in terms of a "Victorian-type" village where everything from the vegetation to the rocks, and animals/humans had something about them that was just "off". Gary Fry did a good job conveying that sense; unfortunately, his main character did very little to make the reader sympathize with him. A rigid, self-absorbed academic with no flexibility in his own life--I just couldn't quite identify with him enough to make the story work for me. The scientific terminology was overused, in my opinion, and took away some of surreal elements that had initially captured my attention--it made the novella sound almost like a textbook in several locations.I believe that the idea behind was to lead Daryl to loosen up his own lifestyle, and yet the ending didn't quite seem to satisfy that for me. I've enjoyed a lot of work from Gary Fry, but this was not one of my personal favorites.