The Harlequin’s Dance by Tom Arden
I got 67 pages (eight chapters) into Tom Arden‘s The Harlequin’s Dance (1997), and even those 67 pages were a struggle.
In fact, I started and stopped the book a few times before finally giving up. I’m a little disappointed, because it seems like there’s potential here. Characterization is thorough, there are some promising villains, and some subtle humor — all things that I appreciate.
And Tom Arden is a fine enough writer,
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Hey, any book with a ghost, a goat girl AND a vampire can't be all bad, right?
Whoa! Cool.
these sound fascinating
Hi Marion, The List of 5 is by James Davis Nicoll, rather than James Driscoll! Thanks for doing these entries.…
Surely, not the worst things in the world to collect: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?408