These seems like a collection of 'what if' scenarios from various fantasy Authors and they are very enjoyable for a casual read; a few of them would even qualify for college-level analysis, I believe.
A strange story of a young apothecary, Thomas Chinnery, heading into Portugese waters of East-Africa and India. He finds himself caught up in intrigue when he meets up with people who have a mysterious compound known as the Rasa Mahadevi, the Blood of the Goddess. It can kill the living but it als...
Readable but a little too forced and the characters aren't developed enough that I really care what happens to them. It was more disappointing because I like Urban Fantasy and this sounded like my kind of thing but Mercedes Lackey does it better.
This was written before the YA Dystopian genre really took off, and I was surprised to see how much dystopian has calcified into a form. I kept being startled by who was helpful and who wasn't, who had ulterior motors and what they were.
It started out cute, enjoyable, nothing special . . . and then everyone died. I fucking kid you not. Like, maybe all of three characters survived, and two of them were villains. I loved the setting,you could tell a lot of world building went into Atlantis, and the way it was done was really enjoyabl...
As seen on Stumptown Books.Part of the Non-European Fantasy by Women blog series.I read Little Sister for my October book of the month (see my review of it here), and I absolutely fell in love with it. It was charming, witty, and heart-breaking, and reminded me why sometimes I can love young adult b...
As seen on Stumptown Books.Part of the Non-European Fantasy by Women blog series.This is exactly the sort of book I am so, so happy this blog series is introducing me to. I am breathless at how much I am loving the books I've chosen; Little Sister, by Kara Dalkey, is no exception.It takes place in m...
The only problem is, a lot of the stories get darker as you go on... but it was pretty interesting, considering I read this one first, and then simultaneously read and reread all three.
This is one of the better anthologies I've read. All anthologies are something of a mixed bag. The reader's taste very seldom meshes exactly with the editor's, or the editor has had to make some compromises along the way. Firebirds is substantially above average.The book is helped, of course, by hav...
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