My Review of “The Inbetween”

I’d like to share my review of Sue Kendrick’s new fantasy short story, “The Inbetween.” If you like fantasy, the story is well worth a look. As an English teacher with more than 30 years of experience, I know how rare it is for someone to truly love language, but it is clear to me that Sue Kendrick does. She doesn’t just write; she creates art. She works with deliberately archaic language that fits her setting, but she uses that language as if she grew up speaking it.

The author’s ability to create an engaging storyline is at least equal to her command of the language. The struggle between paganism and Christianity in early medieval Europe has had many literary treatments in the past, and will have more in the future. Inevitably, each writer has a different take on that friction. Ms. Kendricks’ portrayal of a virtuous pagan female elder and a downright evil monk who share a complicated past is an original twist on this popular subject matter.

My only reservation about the content of this story is that it absolutely begs for prequels and sequels. Such a short story barely scratches the surface of the imaginative world that Ms. Kendrick has created. If I thought that was all there were ever going to be, I couldn’t give the story five stars, but I have every confidence that the author will continue to explore the world she has begun to create.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AAIKQ38/