Title: Not Her Best Effort
Product review: Although her wonderful, intriguing novel "Mulvaneys" was one that was hard to put down, this collection of short stories leaves me wanting; I read it in the wee hours when I can't sleep, and I'm usually asleep within 20 minutes. Knowing she usually writes on the dark side of life's issues, these stories seem to me to be redundant and have excessively similiar themes...rape, illicit sex, fear, murder, alcoholism, etc. With a short story, we expect the unexpected, of course, but many of these shorties just left me asking "what was that all about?" There are a couple of exceptions: "Fire" had some depth and was emotive, but, sadly this book is not one I will put in my bookcase - it will go in the "give away" box.
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