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not_a_wally 's review for:
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
by Tade Thompson
This was not at all what I expected it to be in the best possible way. Reading the description I expected something silly and fun, but it ended up being much darker and more serious than I could have anticipated. It's very successful with it's high concept for such a short novella, also. Color me very impressed. The only thing I found truly bothersome about it was that sometimes the author used the wring words for things. I'm not sure if English is not his first language, and I don't think this was translated, but on occasion he called something by a word that I, at least, had never heard used for that specific thing (i.e. calling a toad-stool a turd-stool). It was a bit confusing when I ran across it, but not enough so to pull me out of the story. All in all I really enjoyed this novella and am curious to check out some of this authors other work. Very glad I didn't let the silliness of the description put me off from reading it.