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| (4.5)| A western tale - how pleasant a change from the usual run. And a nicely managed one, with clear and arresting descriptions, fascinating characters and a delightful atmosphere to the whole thing. I would quibble only with your identification of it as a short story. It seems to lack the purpose and denouement necessary for it to earn such a description. Maybe I'm missing the point but I see it as an enormously competent and vivid vignette. The title is presumably the explanation. If it is intended as Part One of something larger, it may be advisable to make this rather more evident - perhaps a note at the end or beginning. As an opening chapter or section, it is excellent, a delicious taste that entices the reader and prepares him for the feast to follow. The Welsh name is, of course, absolute genius in the context of a western. How better to draw the reader in with instant curiosity and need to learn more? I love the pace of the thing. Like its main character, Gwynne ap Nuada, it takes its time, never hurrying and with a determined tread draws the reader on unresisting. And such a wonderful picture it paints. The tone, too, is delightful. All in all, it's hard to fault this piece, apart from the initial confusion over its intent. Certainly, it's a fine first chapter, if that is what it's meant to be.  My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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