This writing style of including diary extracts,letters, police reports, dissertation journaling and newspaper extracts is quite engaging. I'm beginning to identify the author's signature - multiple voices, multiple view points almost creating the feeling of an intimate bookclub for academics or an appointment to defend a thesis.

This novella has it all but it small doses, fantasy or magic, easily explained away by science in the 20th and 21st century. Kangaroo courts and injustice, Freakshows, Abuse, misguided notions of love.

It feels a little less than whole. I am not sure what it's missing, but there is something... more
Still, it made for an interesting hour and break from everything else