robert_bose's review
5.0
Super enjoyable. I loved the homage to P. G. Wodehouse and the style is certainly fun to read. My only complaint is that it was too short - there needs to be more adventures of Booster & Reeves!
macindog's review
4.0
As soon as you start reading this, it's instantly recognisable as an homage to the Jeeves and Wooster characters of P. G. Wodehouse. Here, Brodie Booster is our foppish, half-witted hero/narrator while the inimitable Reeves is his valet and the resident genius of the duo but the main change from Wodehouse is that this is a horror story.
At only 85 pages long, it's a very short story and easily read but it gallops along with a comical gait so it keeps you entertained as it goes. With a horde of zombie films and books out there, the story itself, of the dead rising and trying to eat the living, is a bit clichéd but tying that to a pair like Booster and Reeves turns it into a very entertaining pastiche.
I picked this up from free from the the Amazon Kindle store so it's a good introduction to Mr. Blackford's work and I hope he does more of them. I might even investigate some of his other tales as well.
At only 85 pages long, it's a very short story and easily read but it gallops along with a comical gait so it keeps you entertained as it goes. With a horde of zombie films and books out there, the story itself, of the dead rising and trying to eat the living, is a bit clichéd but tying that to a pair like Booster and Reeves turns it into a very entertaining pastiche.
I picked this up from free from the the Amazon Kindle store so it's a good introduction to Mr. Blackford's work and I hope he does more of them. I might even investigate some of his other tales as well.
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