Review: A Nice Fear For Many Travellers Short Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2012
A woman visits Italy to spread her father's ashes and start a short term piece of employment. However her cousin who was supposed to meet her is nowhere to be found.  She decides to find a phone and call him but her plan is stopped short in the arrival hall by a handsome man.  Unfortunately for her he is an airport policeman and she's got some explaining to do.This is a standalone short story, the story does wrap up nicely, it certainly is not a taster as some other reviews have misleadingly written.  It also isn't a Romance story as some have said which may also be putting some potential readers off.  There's no Fifty Shades of Grey, or even looking lovingly into each other's eyes type action in these pages.  You also don't get to see the canals, people, sites or city of Venice through the eyes of the narrator if you were after a travel tale for those purposes. Christmas in Venice is set entirely in the airport and other than that is the time of year the narrator travelled, that's as much it has to do with Christmas.  It's a fun imagine if this was me experience type read, that many frustrated by delays and other things that go wrong when travelling, especially by plane can relate to, hoping it doesn't ever happen to them.Christmas in Venice does use a bit of artistic licence, I can't imagine if they thought there was even a chance the threat was real they would allow people to stand around or even attempt to open a bag in this situation rather than simply destroying it.  The policeman also first stops her only metres away from leaving her bag the whole scenario wouldn't have happened like that but this is a piece of fiction after all. It's an enjoyable five to ten minute at most read.