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Okay, first, this is a bit of pulp fun, and I shouldn’t try to get too serious with it.

But, I would like to know a little more about the world. It’s not Earth, nor even furry-Earth, as we have novel place names and geography. We have ancient civilizations and the archaeology thereof. This seems to exist in university sponsored digs and rough-and-tumble treasure hunting at the same time. More surprising, we have nomadic tribes in the desert. And we have cell phones.

It’s far from impossible for all this to exist together, but it is unlikely. Notably, you have some modern attitudes competing with the very ’30s pulp atmosphere.

The good news is that if you don’t think about it too hard, the atmosphere works, and the characters fit it just fine.

On the pacing end, I’ll point out that we have lots of very short chapters, and the ebook doesn’t have chapters broken out in a table of contents. This helps with a serial/pulp feel, and keeps the excitement level high with plenty of twists and turns.

Plot-wise, things are quite good. The cast of characters is a little large for the length of story, and I got a little confused on a couple occasions. The action comes up to speed nicely, we get a good amount of rise-and-fall of tension, and a good climax. Sprinkled in are character interactions that do help drive the plot, and of course the return of old lovers to complicate things.

A note at the end points out there are more stories on a WordPress blog, but at the moment, I just see Cursed Collar. Hopefully, there will be more, and hopefully, they’ll be published.