Review: Wait to buy this one
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2011
Without doubt this is a better story than The Lost Coast, and confirmed Eisler fans will want to read it. Actually, even if you're new to Eisler this wouldn't be a bad place to start as it has major characters, themes, and plot elements that characterize the full-length novels. I think it's likely that if this story doesn't engage you, you wouldn't like the full-length novels either.My major gripe, and it's a big one, is the price.First, $2.99 is just too much. Other established authors in the genre and on a par with Mr. Eisler and who have started self-publishing ebooks (e.g. Tim Hallinan and Brett Battles) give us a full-length novel for $2.99 - much better value for the $.Second, the Amazon description is somewhat misleading. Half or a little more of the download is NOT the story - it's just padding, e.g. preview chapters of Eisler's upcoming novel. So the story turned out to be much shorter than I expected.Third, Mr. Eisler's strategy seems to be to price his stories at $2.99 when they first come out, then lower the price. I notice that The Lost Coast is $1.99 now, vs. $2.99 when I made the mistake of buying it a few weeks ago.  If I'm right about this, you'll get the story for less before long, and there's certainly no reason to be in a hurry to read it.I thought The Lost Coast should have been $.49. On that scale Paris Is a Bitch should be about $.69