Eshusdaughter's Reviews > Fly by Night

Mosca Mye and her goose Saracen are certainly an odd couple of heros, but charming ones none the less. The underlying story is a good one with lots of twists and turns that satisfy as well as suprise.

This book receives only three stars, however, for several reasons. First, the author is a little too enamored of simile and comparison. There are some really great similes in this book but also some humongous clankers. Many of the comparison's the author makes just don't fit or make sense. There is also a tendency to focus on minutia too much and over-description. Perhaps because of those tendencies, the book is a lot longer than it should be and it begins to lose a bit of the enchantment after awhile. I like a good long book, when the story warrants it, I don't feel that was the case here and there were clear areas that could and should have been trimmed.