So Much Story, So Little Page Count: Andre Norton's Dare to Go A-Hunting
Andre Norton has a habit of running out of page count in her novels. Her adventures gallop headlong from peril to peril, swerving past monsters both human and otherwise, diving underground, careening through weird and wonderful landscapes, until they screech to a halt on the very last page, sometimes the very last paragraph. Then the characters of opposite sex, if any, suddenly swear eternal—something. Not love so much as end-of-movie lip-lock and rapid fade to black. It’s not often that she loses control of her material. Her adventures for the most part are tightly plotted. She might run...
Source: tor.com