My favorite of the stories was the Chinese story "The Drinking Companions", which was sweet, steeped in friendship, and tickled my fancy.

The odd story "The Bunyip" was actually rather fun, as it explained, as only fairytales and fables can, the reason why black swans come from Australia.

"The Goblin, The Grocer, and The Student" was cute, mostly because I liked the goblin.

"Oona and the Giant" was your typical fairytale, where wits conquer strength.

"The Giant With No Heart In His Body" was very similar to "Oona and the Giant", except we had the addition of another typical fairytale element: a heart not in a chest cavity, where it belongs. Also, wits conquered strength again, yay!

"The Lass Who Couldn't Be Frightened" was charming enough, and I liked how she was pretty fierce, so long as there were no mice involved!

"The Ghost With Two Faces" was creepy beyond all belief, and also the story with the least amount of an actual story.

"Little Oonyani" and "A-Man-Among-Men" were not very memorable and the most lackluster of the bunch.

However, the illustrations for all of them were hideous and/or occasionally intensely disturbing. To the point where I would never show that to a child for fear they'd have nightmares, ex. "The Ghost With Two Faces".

Goblins.



Yeah.



I don’t know exactly what pushed me to read this. So don’t ask me. Sometimes I think reading something weird is fun. But rarely good. So, yeah, it was entertaining, I didn’t have to think anything intelligent for a while. So, let’s move on.



Oh, it wasn’t a waste, I found lots of good gifs about goblins. Yeah.

CUTE, ADORABLE GOBLINS =)

Loki, you're dumped! Back to my old crush *happy sigh* 

 

5 stars for the first story.

 

No explicit sex ...but so magicaaal! 

 

The first story is so very perfect in so many ways. It's fantasy with the whimsical edge of fairy tale about it and mysterious and sexy without getting raunchy. Not that raunchy is completely bad, mind you. Not in certain circumstances. It's just nice that I didn't have to suffe-- sit through stroke-by-suck narration on the mechanics of sexual intercourse.

Wulfie is adorable. Ash is mysterious and sexy, but also really sweet. They're basically really adorable together, and there's bondage, and everyone knows that sexy bondage makes everything better.

The universe is really fascinating and cool, although I'm a bit confused about Ash, since I thought he was and elf, or part elf, but it seems he's actually just human? Minor point, though.


I was a bit reluctant to start the second story, 'cause it seems like it's about Quiller and who cares; we wants our Precious...you know, Wulfie and Ash.


It's okay, though. It seems I've waited long enough for me to read the second story.
Yeah, idk what to say. Hmm.. Focused only has one s? Yeah, there's that.

I liked the story. I read part of it, kind of went away, then finished it, so I don't really have much to say about it overall, but I do enjoy Quiller and Cashel, who I refuse to call Michael Danvers.

They weren't bad, but I still find the adorableness of Wulfie adorable, because spells and shit.