Well, it was an interesting diversion for about an hour–editing errors aside (page 35 of the ebook has a glaring error). Roskiman’s Tale was actually the better of the two, in my opinion. So much can happen in the Jungle Drums scenario . . . yet . . . so little did.

I would rather have seen more of the characters’ personalities come out in the story as opposed to being told what was going on. It made sense for Roskiman to tell us how he felt as he was new to a lot of the emotions in his situation. In comparison, we were just informed of Jan Augusta’s observations and told he was an expert on reading people. We were told about their emotions but not shown them.

All in all, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. A good first attempt. Needs work, but definitely the right steps in the right direction. Looking forward to more novellas.