Bedlam's Edge
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416521105 (1416521100)
Publish date: January 30th 2007
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 367
Edition language: English
Series: Bedlam's Bard (#8)
Using Mercedes Lackey's series of Elven Urban Fantasy as a springboard this is a series of stories by several authors using this as a springboard. It's a mixed bag of stories many of them quite interesting. A fan of her series would love it, others might like it as an idea of what her world is lik...
As it so often happens with short story collections by different authors, this one was very uneven. There were stories that I would rate as 5, others as 1 - overall, a 3 seems a fair rating for the book as a whole.
I will go through and discuss a little about each of the stories, since I was organized this time, and jotted down notes regularly as I read this collection. One comment I have is that this anthology assumes that the reader has read a Bedlam novel before. You can read and enjoy this separately, bu...