Book Review: Something Short

Title:


Something Short








Author:



Angela Lockwood & Elspeth Morrison






Genre:


Short Stories





Publisher:


Independently Published





Release Date:


5.7.14





Format:


Kindle





Pages:


59 pages





Source:


Kindle Unlimited

Something Short is a collection of short stories from French and Scottish shores by two female writers; Elspeth Morrison and Angela Lockwood. We meet a variety of interesting and amusing Scottish characters in Begonia, The Wee Baldy Man, The Pop Star and a mad scientist in Animals, but also some personal experiences in dealing with arthritis and depression in Begonia and The Goldfish Bowl. The stories are short but impactful and we hope they leave a lasting impression on you.

About the authors

Elspeth Morrison is a published author of historical non-fiction, namely The Dorothy Dunnett Companion vols I & II and editor of The Lymond Poetry. She has always enjoyed writing but only recently has had the nerve to publish her fiction. Some of her work is quite close to the bone, but in her short stories and her poems she strives to make an emotional connection with the reader. Elspeth works and lives in Edinburgh.

Angela Lockwood-van der Klauw was born in the Netherlands. She learned her trade as a jeweller and gemmologist at the Vakschool Schoonhoven before moving to Edinburgh as an apprentice jeweller. There she met and later married her husband Adam. Angela ran her own jeweller’s shop in Edinburgh for ten years before she and her husband moved to the south of France in 2011. Angela prefers the climate there, but often thinks about the town she left behind and its people.

Angela started writing in the spring of 2013, a very wet spring during which she found herself climbing the walls, frustrated that she couldn’t go out and have her usual long walks along the seafront. Seeing his wife’s frustration, Adam suggested ‘Why don’t you write a book?’ Angela thought about it for a few days, then switched on her laptop and started writing. She published her first book ‘Language in the Blood’ in August 2013.

Having met many moons ago in Angela’s jewellery workshop when Elspeth discovered a passion for jewellery and wanted to know more about their manufacture, they now share another passion; writing. Even though these friends now live on different shores they have pulled together to release this bundle of short stories.

Today is the day that Naked Desire is free on Amazon for five days and is the official launch of the conclusion of the Desire series. As I bid farewell to Kelly and Tony, a part of me is slightly sad.

During this series, I learned much about the craft of Marketing a book, and there would be some things that I would have changed when I first released Undercover Desire.

Here is the second part of my Short Story Spotlight. I decided to review Something Short, a fitting name for an anthology.

Something Short

Book Review: I initially started to read Something Short because I did not have time to read a full-length novel. This collection is brilliantly titled. These stories are somewhat short, but that does not mean that they are not cleverly written.

Starting out, I found the Scottish and Irish words in the dialog to be a bit much. There were a couple of places where it sped down my reading as I was trying to make out what the speaker meant, but to my delight, as I continued to read, I found that that type of dialog style was used less.

My favorite story was Winners and Losers. In a way, without revealing the twists, it made me think of some of Stephen King’s writing in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, as well as a novel from H.G. Wells.

Another story that I liked was Change. I was going on with the main character in this, sympathizing with her and then smiling at the ending. I believe that we all know a person like that in our lives.

Overall, I enjoyed Something Short. It is at times cleverly or funny written, a sophisticated collection. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys short stories or a quick read.

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General: ✯✯✯✯ 1/2

Theme :  ✯✯✯✯ 1/2

Characters: ✯✯✯✯

Actual Total of Stars: 4 1/2 (A Great Read)

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