Rating: 2, Not recommended
Wylene Godfrey, her husband Reed, and daughter Celeste move to Wriggly, Georgia, where everyone owns at least one rattlesnake.
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Pro: The prose is clean, and the story really does have a plot: the .
Con: The anti-gun political message goes on and on and on. For a shorter story, this might be sustainable, but at 12,000 words it just seems endless. It makes its point, after a fashion, but it lays it on so thick that suspension of disbelief is impossible to sustain.
Con: The anti-gun political message goes on and on and on. For a shorter story, this might be sustainable, but at 12,000 words it just seems endless. It makes its point, after a fashion, but it lays it on so thick that suspension of disbelief is impossible to sustain.
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ReplyDeleteOvertly satire that bents way more on parody than any realism. Plot is not too bad and it’s kinda amusing that the world has no gunpowder and does not progress beyond archery. But yes it goes on too long
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