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Wonders Of The Invisible World (2012)

by Patricia A. McKillip(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1616960876 (ISBN13: 9781616960872)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tachyon Publications

review 1: I love Mckillip's writing and to find this on kindle was so great. There's hardly any of her works available digitally through kindle so i have to order them from the States and they take ages to come. This work is a series of short stories, ranging from present day to her classic fantasy style. I enjoyed them, although to be honest, I do like her longer works, where I can kind of immerse myself in her long and lyrical sentence structures. She writes in such beautiful phrasing that one has to take time to read her books, and for me a longer work delivers that. Anyway, they're cool stories, some are better than others of course, but that's always the case and really enjoyable
review 2: Mckillip's prose is undeniably strong. She's a poetic writer, and most of th... moreese short stories display that kind of lyrical prose that I can get lost in. Her strongest pieces, for me, are those told from everyday characters, the ones in the background. Like "Out of the Woods," told from the pov of a woman asked to clean a wizard's cottage. Another unique story from the collection is "The Old Woman and the Storm," a very short, poetic piece about love and storytelling. Many of the pieces were urban fantasy, a genre I'd never read from her before. These were hit and miss for me, my favorite being "Naming Day," perhaps my favorite because, once again, it tells the story of the everyday alongside the fantastic. Some of her urban fantasy pieces lost the lyrical prose and poetry of her other pieces, and the characters at times fell flat, like in "The Kelpie," though I loved the Kelpie folklore. Overall, this is worth reading if you're a fan of Mckillip or if you enjoy lyrical, fantastic and urban fantasy short stories. less

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