Review: Not Great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2013
Sometimes I forget why I hate novellas, purchase a couple and, invariably, end up regretting it.This one was no exception. Just when the story is getting good, it ends in about half a page with a brief  one-page "epilogue" placed two days later.Lanyon is one of my all-time favorite writers, so I thought that his short-form writing might be different. It isn't. There's just not enough time in 100 pages to get involved with a character, watch him grow, empathize with him, root for him, suffer for his tribulations. Nor is there time to develop a good mystery, with believable red herrings, frustrating twists and all the other goodies that make a good mystery fun.This might have been a great book with another hundred pages. But then again, if pigs had wings....