A Spoonful of Magic Author: Irene Radford Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Daw Books Release Date: November 7th 2017 Format: eBook Pages: 352 Source: NetGalley A delightful new urban fantasy about a kitchen witch and her magical family Daphne "Daffy" Rose Wallace Deschants has an ideal sub...
Includes a story about the Trickster: "He was sitting in a waiting room with other god's from different religions, Buddha,Christ and so on. He was tricking them out of existence. It was part of a fantasy anthology."
I won this book through librarything. I don't usually like the Arthurian books because none of them can live up to the epic greatness of The Mists of Avalon. But I was happily surprised by this one. Being Wiccan myself I loved reading an account (though fictionalized of course) of the slow takeover ...
Somehow, against all odds, overcoming my usual lack of stick-to-it-tiveness, this book did not become a DNF. There was a touch of skimming in the last two chapters, but I read it from cover to cover, possibly as a object lesson to myself.Even though I write the other variant of urban fantasy (ass-ki...
Overall, I have to say this collection was a bit of let down. A good portion of the stories were boring and predictable. Even "The Sword of Herkales" one could see coming a world away.I couldn't get though about 4-5, and one of the ones I got though, "The Arrows of Godly Pleasure", I really didn't...
Most of the stories in the book are okay. My favorite, however, wasMichelle West's retelling of Beauty and the Beast with a good dose of O. Henry. But overall, the collection was disappointing. The stories were either too predictable or too boring. West's one was very good, so go to the library ...
This anthology consists of fantasy stories by several prominent DAW authors. Some of the authors contributed stories set in an established world but others contributed something completely new. I thought this was a pretty good anthology. It took me a while to get back into reading pure fantasy (a...
Some of the worst short stories I've read in a long, long time. Trite, cliched, badly told...ugh. I finally gave up after Russel Davis's "The Last Day of the Rest of her Life." It is a retelling of The Little Matchseller in which the main character is a young girl named Angel, who runs away from her...
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