The Gatsby Gambit
A thoroughly enjoyable mystery story with all the tropes and pleasures of a golden age detective story ... Well-written and pacy, inflected by the original characters and setting but otherwise unconstrained by them.
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Delightful ... Anderson-Wheeler writes in a voice that is fun to read, even as she stays true to the character traits Fitzgerald created a century ago ... Fitzgerald scholars may find it all frivolous — nothing but fan fiction that effectively negates the plot of the original — but readers who either don’t care about that or who just want to spend more time with these characters will be rewarded.
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Anderson-Wheeler isn’t the stylist that Fitzgerald was (not many are) but she understands his characters. That understanding informs Gambit, which smartly recognizes that star-crossed lovers Jay and Daisy were never meant to be, even with Tom conveniently out of the picture ... If The Great Gatsby is going to turn into a The Avengers-style bit of intellectual property, with spinoffs of spinoffs of spinoffs — and, clearly, it already is — then The Gatsby Gambit is an example of how well that could go ... Anderson-Wheeler obviously loves and has been thoughtful about the source material, and she has written a novel that respects its elder while, like a boat against the current, she takes its characters in a completely new direction.
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