Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers, (Paperback)

from the.ken.petersen

I missed this book upon release and so, somewhat late, I came upon it in my local second hand bookshop. It seemed like a good idea to set fifteen writers the task of completing a story at the rate of one chapter each and so, I started to read: well, I was wrong. The only chapter that works, is th...

from carterchristian1

Interesting idea, but not all that great

from stevage

The twists and turns are entertaining, and it's truly unpredictable in a way which single-author books rarely are. But there is a painful moment which made me cringe, when a character who is introduced as a self-styled gangsta rapper in one chapter inexplicably becomes a Rastafarian in the next. ...

from Clurb

I was disappointed with this one purely because the story failed to flow succinctly between authors/chapters. If this was an exercise in showcasing Irish talent they could have at least got a decent editor in.

from mickymalone

Yeats Is Dead! must be one of the strangest mysteries. Wherever outcomes would seem predictable, the next writer reverses the tide of the story. Chapter 2 mentions none of the characters that Chapter 1 does and whenever a character is being built up they are killed off by the next writer.