Review: As Fate Would Have It
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
In most action fiction, a character that never loses a fight or a battle might not hold your interest for very long.  But the character of Zach, created by Daniel Kucan, seems to be losing the war; and even though Kucan's enormous talent for energy and pace and laugh-out-loud humor keep this story moving along like an Indy car, there is a growing sense of melancholy, of his narrator's dead certain recognition of his fate, that makes this a fascinating character, indeed.Couple that with Kucan's powerful eye for surreal detail and authentic sense of place, and you have The Emerald City, one of the best stories I have read in a very long time.