A review by foomple
Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond by Ursula Vernon

3.0

This was started when Vernon was still in her teens, and it reads like a raw (read: unhoned) talent. But while the writing can be awkward and she falls back on some clichéd turns of phrase and ideas, the bones of how her work would evolve are visible here, and I often like seeing how artists grow and change. The hook for me in so many stories is characters I can care about --I actually largely stopped noticing the unpolished writing because I care what happens to these characters, and I'm going to read Part 2.