haukka's review against another edition
2.0
This could have easily been three stars except the power of the story fizzled out and became repetitive. It involves much snakes. That and when I read notes from the draft I realized the author's orginal raw version and image rich writing style could have carried the tale to the end.
For example the author had wanted to write "females dancing" and the editor who is a photographer corrected it to "women dancing." All the stuff the photographer-turned-editor meddled with stripped the story of all the poetry and flow that would have made the story stand out and match the magic of the snakes.
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