Review: "This Letter to Norman Court" by Pablo D'Stair

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Book Details:
Title: This Letter to Norman Court (Trevor English, #1)
Author: Pablo D'Stair
Published: 2011- Pigeon Grift Press
ISBN: 978-0-6155-0553-4
Pages: 132 pages
Genre: Crime/Noir Novella
Rating: 1 of 5
Read In: 1 day


My Review:
This first of five novellas about petty crook Trevor English was one of the worst works of literature I have ever read. Not only is the entire thing lacking any kind of sentence or chapter structure, the grammar is painful to read through.

One reason many people enjoy books is the characters and how the author presents them and their personal growth and how much the reader can connect and enjoy the character. This Letter to Norman Court, however, had absolutely no likable characters. Trevor English is a pickpocket living life on the outskirts of society and barely getting by crashing on couches, drinking and smoking profusely, and lifting wallets to fund his habits. When he is offered two thousand dollars to deliver an incriminating letter, he takes advantage of the situation to make even more money by ruining lives of everyone involved in the letter. When his scheme begins crumbling around him, I found myself hoping and praying the cops would get him, because a person like that, even a fictitious one, deserves nothing less. Not only is the main protagonist is a miserable low-life, all the people he meets along his journeys have some hidden agenda or secret to hide.

Although pretty short, it was difficult for me to read through this mind-numbingly ridiculous novella. I give This Letter to Norman Court one of five stars, merely for the author's brave attempt at writing something another person may want to read. But that person is not me.