Victims
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My review -
Sam
Williams is in the very early stages of a relationship with a new girl and
learns she’s been abused by a previous partner. This man is still pulling her
strings and Sam agrees to help. He has an enemy at work, too, and as the plot
progresses, we find out that nothing is really as it seems.
This
makes an excellent ‘amuse bouche’ for the longer and more complex story, The
Art of Staying Dead, which takes place ten years later. The style is slick and
clever and the characters feel well-rounded, not easy to do in a short work. Be
aware that the last 30% is the first chapters in The Art of Staying Dead. I
prefer a link, myself, as I never read teaser chapters out of context. Nevertheless,
in its own right, Victims is a small but beautifully proportioned gem of a
story.
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