We Aim to Please by Erin Miller and Tony Leather

I am a great fan of Tony Leather’s work and love his two previous books. I enjoyed reading this third book and there are a great many themes within. Tony Leather, as always, writes tightly, concisely, and consistently good. Family Obligations has to be one of my favourites, but I think they are all brilliantly executed. For me, this book was not as good as his other two. I did not ‘get’ Erin Miller’s work. They are to me a little rushed and end abruptly. Frog Key for example, could have been a great story, but I think it was too short by far.

The American/English wording did not bother me, I read a lot of indie work from both sides of the pond, and I feel it was important that each piece stuck to the writer’s way of spellings/wordings etc.

I think that this book is worth reading, some of the themes are not for me but there is bound to be something in there for any reader. I just did not enjoy Erin’s work very much, but each to their own. This book just did not gel together for me. I also think that a theme would have pulled it together more, with each writer sticking to a genre or topic for the stories to make a more cohesive book. I remain an eternal fan to the works of Tony Leather, a prolific and shocking writer, and I wish both writers the best for the future.

Rachel Dove, The Kindle Book Review