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The Beastly Bride: Tales Of The Animal People (2010)

by Ellen Datlow(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670011452 (ISBN13: 9780670011452)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Juvenile

series

Mythic Fiction

review 1: Every anthology is a mixed bag, especially when the stories are collected from many authors. Luckily, this is a very nice mix overall. I can't think of a single story that I really disliked, and most of the stories were quite good. For me, the two best were Tanith Lee's The Puma's Daughter and Peter S. Beagle's The Children of the Shark God. There are a lot of great stories in here besides those, though, and I was pleased that merfolk/selkies were well represented.
review 2: The trick for the editors in a themed anthology is to choose a subject that is inclusive enough to give the a variety of writers their individual choices in setting, characters and theme but that is tight enough so that the book is cohesive. In the latest addition to their series that began... more with "The Green Man" and includes, "The Faery Reel" and "The Coyote Road", editors Windling and Datlow manage to include Marly Youman's tale of a rural glassblower encounter with a salamander and Lucius Shepard's high school football players in a local curse, Peter Beagle's shark god's wife and children and Christopher Barzak's artist returning home with an aquatic boyfriend. less

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