Sean Michael, Inheritance

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Inheritance
By Sean Michael
Dreamspinner Press, 2017
Four Stars

This is a new edition of a 2014 book first published by Torquere Press. At only 88 pages, it’s a novella that certainly gets the job done. I, for one, would love to have seen it really fleshed out into a full novel, with more upfront about Cash McCord’s family ranch, as well as more exploration of Brad Rafferty’s northeastern WASP family.

It’s not that Sean Michael doesn’t do a good job within the constraints of the novella, but the set-up is so potentially interesting, right up to an including some more in-depth look at each of the six children the two men “inherit” from their siblings. Also, I wasn’t entirely convinced by Mrs. Rafferty’s behavior—something that certainly needed more exposition. I ended this wanting more.

I'll add, for this group, that old posts indicate that Sean Michael is in fact two women writing as if they were one man. That sort of answers all of my questions as to my own hesitation over this.