Victor A DavisBesprekingen
Auteur van The Gingerbread Collection
Besprekingen
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Throughout there is a keen and engaging depth of character. As children face up to the excitements of pushing their limits, the limits push back hard. A couple trust themselves to the wild and it comes back to bite them in an unremittingly terrifying way. The blood of the untamed is unleashed in the form of a haunting canine. The power (some may say primitive but the natural world is out there and as vital and contemporary as anything else whether we engage with it or not) that underlies these stories rests in a deep understanding of nature, of the boundless tension that our interaction with it creates, about how easily pathways can fork in radically anarchic ways.
Inevitably there are stories that impress more than others. The best here are very good indeed, and every story included had enjoyable elements. The collection left me with the feeling that the author had taken considerable care to ensure that each story had been worked on until all that could be made of it had been. That’s a great way to leave any reading experience and one of the reasons why I look forward to sampling more from Victor A. Davis.