Vinnie’s Head Falls Into Place
This is the third and final Rolling Review of Vinnie’s Head. I’ve now finished this book. (The previous portions of this review were posted on July 31st and 29th.)
Sometimes with this kind of book the writer has a hard time with the end. So many questions have been raised, and poor Johnnie has answers to almost none of them through the first 200 pages: in fact the book just got more complicated as it went along. It’s difficult to have multiple plot strands wrap up in the same place and time without messing up the pacing of some of them.
Not only that, but sometimes a writer has to bear down to get all this done, and it’s difficult to maintain a light touch with dialog and incident.I was hoping that Lecard could at least keep the wit in place, and sustain disbelief long enough to get through to the end. But I underestimated him again.
Lecard finishes the book off with a bang. All the plot strands he opened up are closed off in a Rowlingesque manner, it just gets funnier, and there is a killer of a plot reverse that is wholly unexpected and extremely satisfying
I still have a small reservation about one character whose interactions with the rest of the crew seem a little unbelievable, but at the same time this character brings in so many laughs and is so integral to the book’s finish that it’s hardly worth mentioning.
Do what you need to do to read this book. Buy it now, or put it on your list for the BookBringer in December, or remember to buy the paperback next year. But don’t miss it!