A review by nigellicus
The Builders by Daniel Polansky

adventurous dark

5.0

It's sort of the Seven Samurai, only in a grimdark tale of pointless revenge, only they're all talking animals, and it's a mixture of European swashbuckling and western tough-guyisms, and everyone;s horrible, no really, they're irredeemable, no, seriously, the best bits was when they were being killed, you actually WANT them to fail their mission, oh and because they're animals broad stereotypes are ok now, I'm telling you I actually cheered when the first of them got wasted and kept going because at that point I figured there was only one of them getting out so at least I'd enjoy the rest of them being scragged. I think the whole point of this was to have a mouse be the toughest scariest bastard in a world of other more vicious animals. That's it. That's the joke.