Review: Not enough bubbles.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2012
I'm a bubble bath kind of guy and have thought sheepishly more than once what if something was beneath me, slithering inside the drain? The author had similar thoughts and acted on them. This long short story, perhaps novelette territory word-wise, moves rapidly and clocks in with a fast six chapters. It begins with a man named Bruce, with a thirsty cat searching for water and running into the thing down the drain. I felt like a bath with not enough bubbles after not learning enough about what makes Bruce tick. For example, why didn't he take better care of his cat and make sure it had plenty of fresh water?The monster is also too mysterious including its origins, motivations (hunger?) and why, if it's been there awhile, did it choose *today* to make its move? I'm not the kind of reader who has to have all the answers, but the more I'm given, the more I tend to care about the characters and the story. By the end of this one, I was more interested in the antagonist. On the plus side, there were some good humor moments and there was zero fat in this tale. Perhaps the pruning knives were a bit too sharp here. 2.5 stars rounded up.