(Cross-posted from my blog)

The blurb for Strange Little Band is somewhat unpromising. Indeed it makes the characters sound so totally unsympathetic that it put me off reading it for quite a while. Then I read some of the good reviews here and decided to have a look. I’m glad I did, because it’s actually very good. I think I read the entire backlog in one day when I started.

The story is dark science fantasy/paranormal non-sappy romance about the characters trying to survive and raise a child in a cut-throat corporate environment. They’re ruthless and amoral because they have had to be to survive this long.

The writing is strong, and each new part (it updates Tuesdays and Fridays) is relatively short making it a quick read.

Shane and Addison are interesting and sympathetic, because while they are ‘ruthless and amoral’, as the blurb says, they both have their behavioural limits and their human side – without that I’d be unable to root for them and you need to be able to root for the protagonist even when they are bad people.

The default layout of the site is light text on a dark background which some find annoying but there is an option to change to dark-on-light for people who really object to the former.

I’m really not a big fan of romance. Thankfully Strange Little Band is not a sappy romance. It’s a dark dysfunctional romance that doesn’t pretend it’s normal.

On the whole Strange Little Band lives up to it’s name. It’s a wonderfully strange serial and I will keep going back for more.

But I kind of hope they fix that blurb at some point.

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