by Kathy Keegan
Review by: Slantedlight
Review
"In the Mood" is one of two Pros stories in the Nut Hatch zine "Full Circle". There are Kathy Keegan stories that I like, I find that she tends to be more concise than Jane, and therefore more readable, but I have to admit that I'm a bit baffled by this one.
I was thrown first of all because it began as a Doyle/Murphy story - but I couldn't quite imagine either character behaving as the author has written them, and when Bodie appears later on, he too is slightly "off" from the characters as I see them in the episodes. They all three, in this story, are given to long sentences when they speak, long explanations, and a worded openess that I find quite hard to believe in. Englishmen of that generation simply do not sit down and explain their thoughts and emotions and experiences in such depth, in my experience! There are also various Australian/Americanisms that threw me. Basically, I didn't recognise Bodie and Doyle in this story, and although Keegan isn't as lecture-y as she often is as "Jane", there was enough of that to make me frown as well.
Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid!
(Slantedlight, October 2007)