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3.5 stars. I have not read all of the stories in this collection, so this review is only for the following selections:
The Faery Handbag: A creative, interesting story about a unique piece of luggage with a mind (and maybe an appetite) of its own. 3.0 stars
Winner: Hugo Award Best Novelette
Winner: Nebula Award Best Novelette
Winner: Locus Award Best short story.
The Wizards of Perfil: A very good, original story about two children sold to some very "mysterious" wizrds. Good story-telling and a very ...more
The Faery Handbag: A creative, interesting story about a unique piece of luggage with a mind (and maybe an appetite) of its own. 3.0 stars
Winner: Hugo Award Best Novelette
Winner: Nebula Award Best Novelette
Winner: Locus Award Best short story.
The Wizards of Perfil: A very good, original story about two children sold to some very "mysterious" wizrds. Good story-telling and a very ...more
I'll have to read this again sometime, because I was kind of 'eh' about it. Bummer. I really thought I'd like it. I guess I like when stories balance out the weird and the ordinary, like they converge and depend on each other. When it's a bunch of meandering weird? not so much.
I'd read The Faery Handbag and ... uh... the one about the dead girlfriend... I think that's all... in other collections. I read the one about the TV show, also, and then I started one other (can't remember which) before ...more
I'd read The Faery Handbag and ... uh... the one about the dead girlfriend... I think that's all... in other collections. I read the one about the TV show, also, and then I started one other (can't remember which) before ...more
Pretty Monsters Stories is the first young adult collection from Kelly Link. I had never read anything by her before this collection, but Neil Gaiman mentioned her on his blog and it piqued my interest. I picked up the book to leaf through in a book store and thought it looked like a lot of fun from the few sentences I read.
The stories are all fantasy or paranormal stories about young people. My favorite story "Magic for Beginners" is about a boy and his favorite show The Library, but there was ...more
The stories are all fantasy or paranormal stories about young people. My favorite story "Magic for Beginners" is about a boy and his favorite show The Library, but there was ...more
I'm really glad someone turned me on to Kelly Link. She's a gifted storyteller whose work is often pegged as fantasy or light horror (I say "light" because I could never stomach real horror), but in fact runs the gamut from science fiction to fairy tale to some really interesting magical realism with dizzying meta-fictional elements. To get a taste for free, read The Fairy Handbag. [ full review ]
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Weird and wonderful.
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