Supersummary: Study Guide (2019, Independently Published)
English language
Published Dec. 9, 2019 by Independently Published.
Hysterical! Loved the smart ass 11-year-old detective. Can't wait to read the rest.
Update: reread for a book group. Still love Flavia's voice, but realized that I don't care much at all about the plot.
Update update: Huh, no wonder it felt like I had just read this. Seems like this may be turning into an annual thing!
The theme of this short story was extremely close to Allen's previous story "Sleepless, Burning Life": a young woman embarks on a hallucinatory, religiously-motivated suicide mission. The trappings are different enough, but both stories end with an unsatisfying non-ending. Parts are interesting, but in all of the three stories I've read by Allen, they never quite congeal. I don't think I'll go out of my way to seek out other stories by him.
