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Errant (2011)

by Diana Peterfreund(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Noise Court Press

review 1: I read this short story in a collection of short stories (Kiss Me Deadly). I didn't really get how it was related to the topic of paranormal love, and I didn't really enjoy it. I didn't love Rampant, Peterfreund's first unicorn book, either, so it shouldn't be a shock. But this story was in many ways even stranger than Rampant. Gitta, the angry dirty travelling nun with her own personal unicorn, was not very sympathetic, despite improving as the story went along. I didn't understand her motivations for her behavior, including for putting her unicorn at risk. Elise was more sympathetic, perhaps because her life really sucked, and she was a kinder, more polite person. I appreciated her love of gardening and her tenderness to animals. There was no one else likable in the stor... morey, and a surprising amount of cruelty to animals, animal deaths, and planned animal deaths in such a short story. I guess Peterfreund was just painting a dark picture, but it was too dark for me. I didn't enjoy the story, and now I really won't be reading the second Rampant book.
review 2: I really like this world that Peterfreund has created, and I liked the direction this story took, but, as is usually the case with these novellas people keep putting out these days, it felt like the end came a little too abruptly and that the main problems were solved a little too easily. I definitely liked the two main characters, I just would have preferred a bit more depth to the story. But then, I'm not sure how much depth you can really squeeze in in so few pages. This is why I just don't love novellas... less

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