Review: Marvelry's Curiosity Shop

Marvelry's Curiosity Shop by John Brhel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

What a great age we live in when you can be contacted on Twitter and asked to review a book by someone on the other side of the planet, which is then sent directly to your Kindle ready for you to read.

You can argue all day regarding the pros and cons of e-readers but you can't deny that it has given aspiring writers a platform to have their work published and access to a worldwide audience.

Marvelry's Curiosity Shop by Brhel and Sullivan is a collection of 12 short stories all based on cursed items sold by Marvelry; a retired magician who now owns an antique shop.

The stories are all varied in the way the items haunt their new owners, some work out ok for the customer and others don't have such a happy ending.

The stories seem to lack any tension for them to be classed as scary and are over to quickly which is a shame as there are some great ideas in these stories and I love the central connection with Marvelry who you get to know more with each story. I also love the artwork on the cover, I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but you should give credit when it's due.

I'm confident Brhel and Sullivan will only get better with their craft and I look forward to future releases.

3/5

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