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A review by megandawn
In Midnight's Silence by T. Frohock
3.0
This just shouldn't be a novella. It's not a matter of it's so good and I just wished it was longer, it's that it doesn't even feel like a novella. It feels like a full novel, but cut right down to just the important scenes. Constantly as I read this novella I was thinking, for example, 'wow, this scene would have carried real emotional weight, if this wasn't also the first time we are seeing the characters together...' Everything is rushed, characters suffer shock, betrayal and forgiveness in the space of a few paragraphs. The characters have clues literally handed to them because there is no time to look, they formulate and execute their plans first go because there's no time for failure.
This sounds very negative, but it's only because I can tell that if this were a full length novel, if we were allowed to watch the relationships grow slowly, if the revelations that came at the end had a novel's worth of foreshadowing to give them weight, then I just know this could have been something amazing. The writing is excellent, the character's shine, and plot is solid. It's just all so rushed.
This sounds very negative, but it's only because I can tell that if this were a full length novel, if we were allowed to watch the relationships grow slowly, if the revelations that came at the end had a novel's worth of foreshadowing to give them weight, then I just know this could have been something amazing. The writing is excellent, the character's shine, and plot is solid. It's just all so rushed.