Helen Kollin Fichtel's Reviews> Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid: Stories

Barely 2 stars

So this started off most promising, and I really got into the first story, although it did jump about a bit. And then it just stopped.
And then the next ones...well, they all started to blend into each other after a while. I didn't know who was who, the author seemed to assume we had a lot of background knowledge to each character that I'd missed (shoudl I have read his other books perhaps?). There was an odd style too, lots and lots of details and information about events or things which hadn't been mentioned before, so I felt like I was constantly playing catch-up.
There were some brilliant one-liners, but too few, and too hidden in the very wordy prose.
And I don#t think the short story is this writer's forte: the "endings" were appalling! Literally like he'd just stopped writing and couldn't be bothered to go on with it any more.
All in all very disappointing.