| Re: Bead's Pickle - Carolyn Hill (aka Brown Rat)
Since there has already been a review posted by Mark, I'll just stick in my tiny little review here:
Bead’s Pickle, Carolyn Hill
Bead’s Pickle is a delightful treat of a story. The author has created a character in Bead McCheckrovsky that is not only compassionate but realistic, a character we’d all like to know. Despite the science fiction trappings, space travel, frightening aliens and beautiful starscapes, this is really a story about family. We all need to have a family. Some of us have one that works, others have one that tries, and still others have one that doesn’t seem to fit the norm. Regardless of how our individual families relate to each other, they are part of who we are. Bead has forsaken her biological family and created a new one for herself. Her new family is made up of those people on the edge of society; runaways, rebellious youth, and those with precarious mental and physical health. She has adopted all of these wonderful people as her own and will do anything to keep them together. Her new family makes her happy.
When her past comes back to threaten her new life, the newest member of her family – the pickle-loving alien called Junior – could be the key to saving them all.
I truly enjoyed reading this story. It made me smile, it made me chuckle, it made me hungry. |