Review: A short story with crooks and whales
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2012
When I first started reading this short story, I wasn't quite sure what to expect.  I read the description again, because it's been a while since I downloaded this as a free-for-the-Kindle-story. It's fairly entertaining and based on Greek mythology, but I think the story could have been developed a bit more because it seemed rushed.Pinkie is a teenager who stands in the middle of a road and won't let Noah or any tourists or passers-by continue on.  Noah is angry and tries to get around Pinkie, but he winds up nose-diving into the ditch and the only car repair or body shop around is the one near Noah's accident. Pinkie, the sheriff and the car repair business owner are all crooks and are out to scam Noah for as much money as they can possibly get from him, but Noah's father won't pay the outrageous amount of money they want for the repairs, so Noah is on his own.In the meantime, Noah finds and tries to help several beached whales on the shore and meets up with the annoying Pinkie again.  Noah's mother shows up as well as his father at the body shop, and here the story takes a twist, and one of the beached whales saves the day.The mythology angle is very interesting, and I think it could have been developed a little more to add more to that aspect of the story. It is entertaining in itself, but seems a bit incomplete to me. I do, however, like the whales' part in the story and what happens with them.