Reviews for Fen country

The average rating for Fen country based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-15 00:00:00 Katrina Whitworth This turned out a lot better than the other GV books I'd been reading. IT's still not as good as THE MOVING TOYSHOP but much better than the others I've had to slog thru. Here we get 25 short stories and the brevity benefits them greatly. They are a breeze to skim thru. Not that a competent editor couldn't blue-pencil a lot of needless phrases and an over-abundance of adverbs to make them better still. Fen only figures in a handful of them. The stories are more 'cute' than clever, the solutions turning on a single word or sudden revelation. All could have been dragged out to novel length but Crispin resists the temptation. My favorite was 'Cash on Demand' where a killer-for-hire offs the wrong person. none of the others made much of an impression. Final verdict: FEN COUNTRY is all right; a quick read some of which will stay with you but most of it won't. Not a waste of time, but nothing you'd want to revisit later.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-12 00:00:00 Pamela Mytnik Edumund Crispin is wonderful. He deserves to be better known than he is.