NEW SCIENCE
FICTION AND FANTASY REVIEWS
Reviews Of
Recently Published Science Fiction And Fantasy Books
Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
Blog Address: http://newsciencefictionandfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/
February 2, 2017
Nessie Revealed!!
(Or Nessie Bids
Adieu To The
Loch!!)
A Review
Of
Susan Cooper
The Boggart and The Monster (Margaret
K. McElderry Books, 1997
185 pp $7.99
ISBN: 0-689-81330-9
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
I am a long-time fan of the Loch Ness
Monster; and, when I lived in Philly, a friend of mine was a scientist who
belonged to a Loch Ness Monster scientific study organization, and under its
auspices he traveled to the Scottish Highlands, (which, by the way, is a great
setting for stories). My “bet” is on the
dinosaur theory, which, by the way, is mentioned in the book under review,
which is one of the most interesting and well written stories I have ever read
penned by a long-time author whom I have just now discovered by means of a
Goodreads email I received yesterday from one of my fellow speculative fiction
writers in the Lost Genre Guild. Cooper “gives
away” the story in the jacket blurb, which I shall not repeat here so I do not
need to issue a spoiler alert!
In re the name of my reviews blog, let me
just say that the book itself is not “new” but rather is “newly discovered” (yesterday!)
by me! Ha! Ha!
I
have already started, beginning today, to read Cooper’s other stories,
beginning with the quintology titled The
Dark Is Rising. I will let you know
what I think of it after I have completed reading it.
Information on the author is available at
her website www.thelostland.com.
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