A review by thewickedbookworm
Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise by Joe DeRouen

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.