A review by a_h_haga
The Button Man and the Murder Tree by Cherie Priest
3.0
(A little arg because my Kindle marked it as finished before I got around to writing a review. I turned that thing off all the time, but it never stay off. ARG!)
But yeah, back to the novella.
I haven't read any of the other Wild Card stories before - I don't even know what it is for sure - but I picked up this in my quest to read all of Cherie Priest's works.
This novella follows a hit man in old style Chicago, after he has drawn a Joker - which I figure was a deck people could draw from, and those drawing Jokers get changed.
I don't know what I can really say about this without spoiling anything, but it was an OK and fast enough read to distract me while getting a new tattoo. So recommended for that.
Like many other short stories, however, I felt it fell a little short, as there is just so much you can develop in 30 pages, and also because I guess this world has been growing with other authors contributions as well over the years.
But yeah, back to the novella.
I haven't read any of the other Wild Card stories before - I don't even know what it is for sure - but I picked up this in my quest to read all of Cherie Priest's works.
This novella follows a hit man in old style Chicago, after he has drawn a Joker - which I figure was a deck people could draw from, and those drawing Jokers get changed.
I don't know what I can really say about this without spoiling anything, but it was an OK and fast enough read to distract me while getting a new tattoo. So recommended for that.
Like many other short stories, however, I felt it fell a little short, as there is just so much you can develop in 30 pages, and also because I guess this world has been growing with other authors contributions as well over the years.