Review: Dark and Entertaining
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2012
This book is a collection of short- stories and poetry that is delightfully dark and disturbing. I've read over some of the other reviews on it and I think the biggest complaint anyone had was that it is randomly assembled. There isn't really any obvious rhyme or reason to the way it is compiled. I might be mistaken but I believe that was intentional. I find it hard to believe that a writer as talented as Mr. Hutchings would accidentally or unwittingly assemble his works in such a manner.Speaking of the writing itself, I found the stories to be clever and entertaining. While I don't necessarily agree with every opinion reflected therein, I can appreciate the humor in it all. My particular favorites are as follows; Everlasting Fire, If My Life Was Filmed, The Moon Sailed Sadly Through the Sky, Death and the Merchant, The Bird and Two Trees, The Sailor, Local News and Charon.All in all, I thought it was pretty damned brilliant and I would recommend it to anyone with a thing for dark fantasy and satire.