What is your opinion?
Greetings and appreciation
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Electric, intriguing, wonderful
"It felt like I was right there in the tavern with those men. The end left me ready to click next before I even reviewed. You clearly have a grip on the dialogue, time period and the Black Dog gives me shivers. Forgive me if I don't vote :) but really a fan of this story and your writing. Great job!"
Historical skulk, rather than romp
"Fitting ending for The Black Dog, horrible man. I like the idea of Tyburn as an Elizabethan investigator, enough to check for the book on Amazon, though I wonder about your using both his name and the location. It can't help but confuse and I noticed at least one place where the town or village didn't get the 'e' at the end. While I agree that footnotes aren't typical in fiction, that's partly because in a novel, there would be more context and possibly repetition of certain phrases and words to help us with the meaning. With an excerpt, it's better to provide us with the information."
Well-Researched Historical Intrigue
"As a teacher/scholar of British literature, there's nothing I like more than a well-informed tale of historical fiction, particularly one dealing with the murky events around Elizabethan England. Black Dog is full of gritty, well-chosen details that make the period come to life, and a plot that is as intriguing as the mystery surrounding Marlowe's death (if he did die, that is). This work really reeks of the period, and the author is quite skillful in conjuring up a visceral sense of this world. I'm trying hard not to reveal anything of the plot, but if you enjoy a world of secret cabals, desperate men, and the darker side of humanity, then this tale will keep you up at night. My only criticism is that some of the scholarship in this tale seems half-digested. By this I mean that the author is trying, at times, a bit too hard to impress upon the reader his knowledge of the period. Footnotes in fiction are a bit much, I think--they are very distracting and have no place outside of an academic article. In our age of Google, the reader can easily look these up his/herself. In other passages, I think the author spends too much time explaining and name-dropping, which again, detracts from the story. I would simply have the narrator assume that his audiences knows all of this, and feels no need to explain and elaborate. Simply tell the tale and that will 'wow' us all the more. THat's the only thing that occasionally took me out of this story. Still, very good work and an exciting addition to Inkitt!"
