Review: A decent, simple story.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
A simple little short story, with a pretty basic premise - a retired mercenary is finding it difficult to fit in to small village life. He tries a variety of careers with limited success and struggles to earn the respect of the fellow villagers.There are a few logical inconsistencies that bothered me, and the motivations of the different characters were sometimes unclear (as were their voices, after a scene shift I sometimes had difficulty knowing who was speaking). The plot is straight forward and somewhat predictable. It was all from the first person narrative of the main character, but I would have been interested in other points of view - for example from his wife who we are only introduced to as a sleeping character in the first scene. Has he told her what's going on? What does she think? Is she the one pushing him to earn more money? etc.All in all, a quick, decent read, but nothing to write home about.