Review: Short, funny (and cheap) collection of essays and observations
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
Novelist Rob Kroese (Mercury Falls: Mercury, Book 1,Disenchanted) has a new collection of humorous essays out, titled Monday Morning in the Mailroom of Good and Evil. It's a follow-up (albeit a brief one) to his collectionThe Force is Middling in this One: And Other Ruminations from the Outskirts of the Empire, and it features a dozen or so short essays and blog posts, as well as some very funny Twitter-style "From the Sock Drawer" observations.The collection is a bit uneven. Some of these essays are really well done (Kroese does particularly well with pop culture humor), and a few fall flat. Still, it's more hit than miss, and for the price it's well worth picking up if you enjoy Kroese's brand of humor. Honestly, it's worth the dollar just for the Last FM letter, which had me laughing out loud, and the Sock Drawer bits. Plus it contains the very funny Mercury Swings short story (which was previously released but apparently no longer available individually), so fans of the Mercury Trilogy definitely need to check it out.