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A collection of 10 short stories by Patricia Wrede. Most were written for other anthologies but she gathered them all together and added 1 or 2 new ones and made them into a book.
My Thoughts
I have a real awkward relationship with books of short stories. On one hand, I love the idea. A whole book of boiled down, stripped to the raw, quintessence of ideas.
On the other hand, it rarely seems to be done right and most authors seem to throw their favorite ideas into it without the work. And then you get the dreaded "loved 1 or 2 of them, but the rest were trash" syndrome.
Thankfully, I loved this collection and didn't have any problems with it. To be honest too, I've enjoyed just about anything from Wrede [except her Lyra books], so I am not an unbiased reader.
This ran the gamut from silly fantasy of The Frying Pan of Doom to the sad story about an older sister who is going to start living her life, tomorrow. One thing I really did like was that Wrede wrote an appendice like thing where she explains where each of the stories came from. I find things like that fascinating for some reason.
Highly recommended to anyone who loves Wrede's works already.
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Author: Patricia Wrede
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