IF NOTHING ELSE, EVE, WE’VE ENJOYED
written by Elaine Pascale
published by Withersin Press
ISBN: 978-0982484210
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
6.2.09
Sure, blame it on the men… wait, it usually is our fault.
Fruit tells a woman to kill her polygynous
husband, and not because of the other wives.
Women are treated to a getaway where they can never get away. Something horrible is growing in Jody Burkoff’s belly, but is it more terrible than what she is
capable of? There is only one winner in
this pageant but looks have nothing to do with it; it is all about survival of
the most determined. A myth of hatred
becomes truth at a local shopping mall.
A bomb could have gone off in the room while I was reading this book
and I wouldn’t have noticed. Pascale writes in the realm with the giants. She is one step past fantastic that is hard
to define, and a little frightening, and yet we yearn to travel there as often
as possible. To be honest I started to
read this book thinking it was a novella/novelette (I never read about a book
before I start one; for some reason I’ve forgotten long ago) and I was quite
confused until I realized it was a short story collection being told by fruit. A
quick reread led to be tremendously more satisfying.
I stumbled across Withersin Magazine about two years ago and was
extremely impressed. There is no mistaking that Misty Gersley and Kim Sumek
aren’t trying to make a good genre
magazine, they’re trying to make the best.
And, with “Eve” as an example, that same attitude is being carried into
Withersin Press.
Buy it as soon as it comes out:
5 out of 5