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Narrated by: Alexandra Harris, Gary Littman
Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 02-27-24 by Penguin Audio
Urban fantasy&fantasy&fairytale/from audible
The Lady and the Glass - A weird tale about humanity that seems to have gone wrong and they find a woman in a glass coffin and stare at her beauty
Bear Trap - It was short, but good. A girl is taken and put in a bear trap.
Not A Princess - A witch wants to be a princess, but it was more about the kid she tried to make into one
The Weapon - About war and being cannon fodder
Hotting Fuggam and the Dragon - A nice little tale about a stranger coming to town and a girl trying to deal with him
Tunnel - This is why I should write reviews for short stories at once cos I do not remember this one
Match Girl - This one I remember because it was a hard listen. It deals with SA, abuse and more. A very very dark and sad fairytale
Rapunzel - Another Rapunzel story and how she came to be
The Wild Heart - Sleeping beauty and another one with a trigger warning. Things go dark
The Fairest One of All - Again, when I listen to many at once some blend in to each other and I only remember the stepmom dying
By the Time the Witchblood Blooms-Which one was this? I remember smex?
The Khaldharon Run - I am just not a Black Jewels fan
The Price - I actually enjoyed this one. Huh. A woman solves a few murders
The Voice - Trigger warning of SA again. Another dark and disturbing one. How one girl in the village is without a voice and takes on other´s feelings, even when she does not want to. And how one girl grows up realising how wrong this is. Good, but yes dark
Home for the Howlidays - Meg and Simon! And the holidays, and danger
The Dark Ship - I have read this one before, but it a good one that takes place in the world of The Others, but in Cal Romano
Friends and Corpses- A freaky place where the dead do not know they are dead so Cecily hunts them down. Throw in a mystery
Truth and Story - Not remembering
Stands A God Within the Shadows - A woman in a tower, why is she there? The story unfolds
She Moved Through The Fair - A ghost story, and someone wants money....
A Strand in the Web - An interesting sci-fi one where spaceships are out fixing worlds to atone, and one girl is stuck on a ship that is failing.
Some are better than other ones, some are a LOT darker than other ones. Some are funny, some are sad. You know, like every anthology out there. Bishop is a great writer so even those dark sad ones are really good. Even if they make you sick to your stomach.
I totally wanted this one for the Simon and Meg story, but even if I liked that one so many other ones shone through.
Great narration, it does have Alexandra Harris too!
A master of bringing fantasy worlds to life, this collection showcases Bishop’s impressive range, from rarities of her earliest writing to the Realms of the Blood, from darker fairytale retellings to the Landscapes of Ephemera, and from standalone stories of space exploration and fantastical creatures to the contemporary fantasy terrain of the World of the Others.
Includes previously published and unpublished tales, as well as two brand-new stories, written especially for this “Friends and Corpses,” a murder mystery in which the corpse has some decidedly unusual qualities, and “Home for the Howlidays,” a heartwarming return to the Blood Prophet Meg Corbyn and the shapeshifting Simon Wolfgard from The Others.
Anthologies can be hit or miss so I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
ReplyDeleteSo true. I guess this one worked well cos they were all hers. And so many
Delete"This is why I should write reviews for short stories at once cos I do not remember this one"
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Haha, I have the worst memory and there were so many stories and I could not remember all the names
DeleteSome anthologies are good.
ReplyDeleteSome sure are
DeleteShe does write some dark tales. I couldn't get into her Black Jewels either. I didn't know there was a new Meg and Simon story! Must get this one just for that!
ReplyDeleteThat shit was DARK, I just could not. Yes a short one :D
DeleteI haven't read an anthology in awhile but this sounds like a good one.
ReplyDeleteThey can be fun at times
DeleteI don't always love short stories, but I'm glad so many of these stories were ones you enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteThey are really good, and dark too
DeleteI have this on my TBR list. Someday.
ReplyDeleteAye, some day
DeleteI know a lot of people love Anne Bishop, I just haven't been able to get into her books. I usually like anthologies because even if I don't like ALL of the stories, there's bound to be at least one that I like.
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It depends which route you take, I could not get into her Black Jewels book. I LOVE her The Others, but only in audio
DeleteI was given fair warning that many of these were dark and gruesome so I purposefully only listened to The Others ones and one more story that I can't remember which.
ReplyDeleteI had no such warning so I was a bit taken back by the darkness
DeleteNo don't want to be sick to my stomach! But can see you enjoyed most of it.
ReplyDeleteSome were hard to take, they were just very dark, bad people being evil
DeleteI forgot about this collection. I should see if my library has it, I want Meg and Simon!! Must have. I hope you like her new book, I loved it.
ReplyDeleteI am SOOO curious
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