Breach by Roderick D. Turner

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Re: Breach by Roderick D. Turner

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If you read a lot of writerly advice (I can give you a list if you want) you've probably already seen the advisement to not begin a story with your character waking up. That's one of a longish list of what are, by now, cliched one-liners on how to (or how not to) write.

My advice? Do read all you can find on good writing, but then become your own authority. After all, it's your story.

Mr. Turner has, for the second time in these pages, flouted the advice, with good results in both cases. In "Seepage," he brought us a formidable female attorney; this time we get a formidable female warrior. Woe betide the opposition in either case.

This one seems to have a quicker pace to it, but I thought the ending was less satisfying; resolution is postponed.

Again, good setting, dialog, plot, and characterization--and good proof-reading, too.
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