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Title: A wonderful farce -- far better than Doomsday Book
Review: The first book of Willis' I read was her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Doomsday Book, by which I was quite underwhelmed. So it was without particularly high hopes that I sat down to read To Say Nothing of the Dog, a sequel of sorts to that earlier book. To my surprise and delight, I found myself enjoying this book a great deal, largely because it was nothing at all like her earlier work. Whereas Doomsday Book had a dark tone and was set during the Black Death, To Say Nothing of the Dog is an outright farce set in the Victorian period. It possesses all the standard trimmings of the farce: improbable happenings, characters dashing about hither and yon, and a general light-hearted tone. Here's hoping that Willis sticks to comedic fare in the future.
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