Review: Disappointing...only minimal relevance to the River City novels
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2012
To be honest, this book was mildly disappointing. A few of the short stories are pretty good, some okay, and some are just not very good at all. Best parts for me were the Connor O'Sullivan and Glen Bates sections; worst was Shae & Laddie, followed by the second Kopriva story. The final one, set near El Paso, started out good but soon slumped into another disappointing ending. The Shae & Laddie story was presented in this order: The ending first, then jumps to a previous time, then and even earlier time, then on to the beginning. Disjointed and hard to follow is the best description I can come up with.This anthology is not as closely related to the River City novels as I'd hoped, and the author notes this in the afterword. He also explains his reasoning behind many of the unhappy and unspectacular endings that occur in most of these short stories. But who among us reads the afterword prior to reading the book? LOL