"Hooked" gets a nice review...

[martinlivings]

I really should check the ASif site more often, shouldn't I?

http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=australian_dark_fantasy_and_horror_2006

They saved the best for last, with the Tin Duck Award nominated story “Hooked” by Martin Living (sic). The parallels between this story and a certain well known children’s tale are immediately apparent, but it is the subtlety with which the common threads and iconic characters transposed into an adult world, which (I hope it was by design) brings the collection full circle. As we see a return to the point Josephine Pennicott illustrated in her initial piece, that fairy tales were originally entirely too adult for children’s eyes. “Hooked” was my favourite of all the stories, a high point finish to a collection of excellent fiction.

My only complaint? Misspelling my name, as usual. :)

Comments

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

especially not since he kindly stepped in to review it after you pulled out - ironically giving the same result

[martinlivings.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good point... maybe I should begin to spread the rumour that Tim is actually a pseudonym for me. Except his name's even more difficult to spell correctly than mine. I had to copy and paste it. ;)

[speshal-k.livejournal.com]

You should stick an 's' on the end of his surname for fun ;-)