Reviews

Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise by Joe DeRouen

vondav's review

5.0

Wow

I loved this book. Every story was great with a different theme. After each story, I thought that was my favourite but they got better and better. This is a must read.

thewickedbookworm's review

2.0

The stories had potential but weren't the best. Some of them were obviously born of the same idea and taken in different directions, which would be neat if that fact were acknowledged. The author seems hung up on the idea of having the same details - a white owl, "Small Things," and a town called Carthage - crop up in every story. Again, this could have been a neat idea if one detail had been chosen, rather than three. As it is, it felt embarrassing. The poetry was not good. The narrator was extremely hard to understand and may have affected my opinion of the stories since the narration style was so disjointed.

brookenomicon's review

4.0

At times haunting and mysterious, and other times horrifying, the tales in Joe DeRouen's Odds and Endings will draw you into a weird, often macabre world where things dark and paranormal masterfully coexist with the everyday. Every story has an ending, but not all of them are happy.