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Amazing variety but somewhat lacking in quality.
I am not going to do a review of every story in this book or even list them for that matter, just too many. Just know that most stories are around 20 pages long, although some of the more popular authors stories could be anywhere up to 40 pages.
Most of the stories were just meh to ok though thankfully there were a few fantastic additions like Ilona Andrews 'Grace of Small Magics' and Jeaniene Frost's 'Pack'.
Who knows maybe I am just not the right person to be reading stories this short. I do enjoy other anthologies which are usually only 4 authors, but my issue with these is that they are just too short. As the reader you are not really given the time to connect with the characters, come to care about them, or understand their actions. This does somewhat explain too why I enjoyed the longer stories much more than the others.
Towards the end I ended up skimming quite a bit, especially when I felt the stories fell flat and there was only 2 that I skipped entirely.
All in all I think anyone who reads it will have some favorite stories, but they will have to wade through a bunch of unsatisfactory story lines to find them.
I am not going to do a review of every story in this book or even list them for that matter, just too many. Just know that most stories are around 20 pages long, although some of the more popular authors stories could be anywhere up to 40 pages.
Most of the stories were just meh to ok though thankfully there were a few fantastic additions like Ilona Andrews 'Grace of Small Magics' and Jeaniene Frost's 'Pack'.
Who knows maybe I am just not the right person to be reading stories this short. I do enjoy other anthologies which are usually only 4 authors, but my issue with these is that they are just too short. As the reader you are not really given the time to connect with the characters, come to care about them, or understand their actions. This does somewhat explain too why I enjoyed the longer stories much more than the others.
Towards the end I ended up skimming quite a bit, especially when I felt the stories fell flat and there was only 2 that I skipped entirely.
All in all I think anyone who reads it will have some favorite stories, but they will have to wade through a bunch of unsatisfactory story lines to find them.
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