Title: Fades in the stretch
Product review: For a good portion of its length, this tale is everything one could want: deliciously witty in a zany way sometimes reminiscent of the Marx Brothers at their best. The difficulty, for me, at any rate, is that it doesn't really come to a proper conclusion, though Heaven knows there are climactic events a-plenty toward the end. But the comedic tone falls victim to A Message. When authors choose to deliver A Message to their readers, it bodes ill; when they can be seen to be almost screechingly yanking on the brake lever to pause their story in mid-run to get to The Message, worse yet.All in all, this is a book certainly worth reading, and I recommend it; but its failure to sustain its original tone makes it a bit disappointing. I will be interested to see what some of her other work is like.
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