setaian's review
5.0
Fawna is a long-term prognosticator. She can look into the future of a person or object and see what awaits. It's her greatest curse. As a child she was kidnapped and brutalised by a gambler who wanted her foresight. Now she has escaped and found protection in Packard's band of Disillusionists and this has brought her into Simon's circle.
Simon is the worst type of person for Fawna. His particular skill is a wild and self destructive recklessness. He is often in the path of danger, he is courting death and his future holds any number of possible deaths –– and Fawna has seen them. When Simon tears off on a particularly fool-hardy venture, Fawna follows, desperate to thwart fate and save his life.
Devil's Luck is a fairly short (105 page) novella that follows on from Carolyn Crane's Disillusionists trilogy. It focuses on Simon, who was a minor player in the series and Fawna who was only a memory from Packard's childhood. Novella's are tough. It's not easy to offer a full, well developed story in only 100 pages, but Carolyn Crane is a great writer and she somehow pulls it off.
A great way to kill and afternoon.
Simon is the worst type of person for Fawna. His particular skill is a wild and self destructive recklessness. He is often in the path of danger, he is courting death and his future holds any number of possible deaths –– and Fawna has seen them. When Simon tears off on a particularly fool-hardy venture, Fawna follows, desperate to thwart fate and save his life.
Devil's Luck is a fairly short (105 page) novella that follows on from Carolyn Crane's Disillusionists trilogy. It focuses on Simon, who was a minor player in the series and Fawna who was only a memory from Packard's childhood. Novella's are tough. It's not easy to offer a full, well developed story in only 100 pages, but Carolyn Crane is a great writer and she somehow pulls it off.
A great way to kill and afternoon.
denizyildiz's review
4.0
Always loved Simon... so this was such a treat. so much simoness and fawna added the weird cute element as well.
funny how much one can find out about a character in a novella!
seriously a must read of lovers of the series.
BUT this leaves me with nothing more to read of the Disillusionists! such a sad moment!
Morning the END of a good series. one of those few ones exhilaratingly sad moments: still on the thrill of having read every last tidbit thats out there having loved every moment and now its OVER.
guess there is always the days when I re-read them?
and thankfully Crane has already started some new material...
funny how much one can find out about a character in a novella!
seriously a must read of lovers of the series.
BUT this leaves me with nothing more to read of the Disillusionists! such a sad moment!
Morning the END of a good series. one of those few ones exhilaratingly sad moments: still on the thrill of having read every last tidbit thats out there having loved every moment and now its OVER.
guess there is always the days when I re-read them?
and thankfully Crane has already started some new material...
kattia's review
5.0
More Disillusionists please!
I really enjoyed this little novella on Simon, who I grew to love in the Disillusionists trilogy.
I really enjoyed this little novella on Simon, who I grew to love in the Disillusionists trilogy.
vegancleopatra's review
3.0
I love Carolyn Crane's Disillusionists series. I enjoy Simon within the series but did not have a strong interest in him singularly, although I was very intrigued by the idea of a short story revolving around him. However, Simon felt a little off to me from how he is in the series, perhaps because love is involved. Fawna, his love interest, ranks pretty low in interest for me so she did not help my enjoyment of the ebook. I prefer some Justine drama rather than Fawna drama it turns out. But as always I do enjoy Crane's writing and the world she has created, I just could not get as absorbed due to the main characters. I also feel Crane excels in full length novels due to her writing style, something I am looking forward to in her two new planned series!
blodeuedd's review
3.0
This is why I do not like writing review of novellas. They are so short, what can I say?
So Fawna (yes I do feel you have to read the trilogy first) and Simon meet at a fair. Yes they know each other from before of course. She is weird and wounded and he is reckless (ha, well duh ;) There is no love between them but there is something.
She needs to let go, and he needs to live.
A short story, I do prefer the longer books as we see the world more clearly then.
So Fawna (yes I do feel you have to read the trilogy first) and Simon meet at a fair. Yes they know each other from before of course. She is weird and wounded and he is reckless (ha, well duh ;) There is no love between them but there is something.
She needs to let go, and he needs to live.
A short story, I do prefer the longer books as we see the world more clearly then.
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