A Shot in the Dark: A Short Story Collection

It starts off really strong with The Deadman's Gift, which is a great story and incredibly sad. It's also a complete punch to the gut at the end but eh.

Unfortunately, after that, I wasn't too into this collection. Too many of them are morality tales that I just didn't agree with or what read like power fantasies where a guy had some special ability and was so awesome and different and that usually impresses some woman that was almost always described the same with a ‘coke bottle body'. There are also all these weird Gurus in the tales and I just didn't understand what that was all about.

There was also a lot of being chased through the forest by creatures where you can only see the hands. Several stories had groups of people telling fantasy tales to each other which were mostly OK.

Now don't get me wrong I enjoyed the writing and I still liked most of the character work outside what I already mentioned. I just didn't find this as fun and interesting as the other things I have read from the author. (The Devil's Game and Twisted Fantasies.)

A little too repetitive and didn't click with me but I'm sure there are others who would like it more than me.