I don’t write book reviews often — in fact, I’m lucky to write one a year. But there’s one author I’ve reviewed more than once, and that is J. Robert Lennon. If you haven’t checked out his latest, please do. You’ll be thoroughly entertained.
From the always wonderful Fiction Writers Review.
See You in Paradise: Stories, by J. Robert Lennon
“Lennon not only balances the mundane with the fantastic, but makes the fantastic feel mundane in the context of this world”: Sung J. Woo on Robert J. Lennon’s new collection, See You in Paradise.
Maybe it’s strange for a reviewer of a collection of short stories to say that he is not a fan of short story collections, but I want you to know where I’m coming from. Don’t get me wrong—I love short stories. I love their intense focus, their fleeting brevity, an entire world contained and expressed in a few thousand words. What I don’t like is reading one after another by the same author, because I get tired of hearing the same voice over and over again. Also, reading another short story after having just finished one can feel like climbing a new mountain, because I have to get acquainted with another set of characters, and the setting is different, and so is the situation, and I miss those people from before…can’t they just come back and give me a break, please?
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