Andy Hill

This was ok. I found some of the stories quite disjointed, particularly Fallen Angel. The tenses were all over the place, going from present to past back to present, then future, then present, then past, you get the idea. There were a few typos and some unnecessary capitalisations, such as World. I was a little disbelieving of the revenge thing because a corpse burnt black and crispy should really have been in a pugalistic pose. It would have made an excellently horrid description writing how when reanimated he had to crack his arms back into some form of functional position, stretching and snapping tendons, charcoaled skin crumbling at the bent elbows. Having said this, I did read on the author's web site a post from October that the said they are going to revamp this edition and put it out again as a second edition so hopefully the things that niggled at me will be fixed. I did like the notes that were attached, the author is right, it gives a glimpse into the inner workings, which is fun and helps with interpretation… (meer)

More of an autobiographical spiritual novel of a wanderlust white dreamy backpacker male character chugging meeting with people and exchanging conversation, drugs and alcohol and stuff. You could say there's multitudes of white washing in some parts, add some superficial mystical exoticism that often adds nothing to the content and a rather 'realistic but redundant' dialogues with very minimal characterization and lack of subtle plot made the reading process almost borders on tolerable if not for the short length.

Its not a bad book if you wouldn't mind enjoying these kind of books. If you are a South East Asian, better skip this one. More a fantasy novel for the dreamy escapist tourist types.
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