Amazon.com Review
Although the concept of To Be Continued sounds gimmicky--lesbian-authored stories with intentionally suspenseful endings, to be completed in a sequel published a year later--most of the pieces included are surprisingly satisfying and self-contained. In Cecilia Tan's slow and lyrical "Dragon's Daughter," a restless Chinese American adolescent finds a magical route to the China of her dreams. In Carla Trujillo's "Huevos Rancheros," two unhappy children tie up and gag their drunken father and try to make him promise to be nicer. Although the children have a knife poised over Daddy's crotch when the story ends, readers can reach their own violent or whimsical conclusions. --Regina Marler
From Library Journal
Short stories are usually resolved in a few pages, but the editors of this anthology set out to do something new and contradictory with the form: have established writers create stories that leave readers on the edge of their seats?until the next volume comes out. Some writers manage to pull off both a complete narrative and a dangling tidbit. Lucy Jane Bledsoe describes three weddings in the life of a lesbian?none of them her own. Jess Wells's "To the Flames" takes us back to the mass burnings of witches in medieval Europe. Elisabeth Nonas's "Shadow Line" provides a tantalizing glimpse into the life and work of a shrink-to-the-stars who volunteers at a Hollywood AIDS clinic. The premise is intriguing, but the question remains whether readers will be able to sustain interest over the year or so till the publication of Volume 2.?Ina Rimpau, Newark P.L., NJ
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
