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From fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shores of Neverland, Seanan McGuire’s short fiction has been surprising, delighting, confusing, and transporting her readers since 2009. Now, for the first time, that fiction has been gathered together in one place, ready to be enjoyed one twisting, tangled tale at a time. Her work crosses genres and subverts expectations. Meet the mad scientists of “Laughter at the Academy” and “The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells.” Glory in the potential of a Halloween that never ends. Follow two very different alphabets in “Frontier ABCs” and “From A to Z in the Book of Changes.” Get “Lost,” dress yourself “In Skeleton Leaves,” and remember how to fly. All this and more is waiting for you within the pages of this decade-spanning collection, including several pieces that have never before been reprinted. Stories about mermaids, robots, dolls, and Deep Ones are all here, ready for you to dive in. This is a box of strange surprises dredged up from the depths of the sea, each one polished and prepared for your enjoyment. So take a chance, and allow yourself to be surprised. Enjoy.
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**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.
Avg rating: 3.82
I always have the hardest time rating anthologies and short story collections, so I've decided to give each story an individual rating and average them to the overall score. For the star rating, I rounded up :)
For any short story collection, there will be some that strike better with one reader than another, and generally some stories are preferred to others in the collection. This short story collection stays true to that theory. None of the stories individually fell below 3 stars for me, and four of the stories were actually 5 stars, which was a wonderful surprise.
In general, if you like Seanan McGuire's writing already, then I would say you'll also like it in this. There is a little bit of playfulness with formatting for some of the stories, which was fun, if not always my favorite.
The concepts in this collection were really cool to think about, even outside of the stories that were actually presented. If you're a fan of short stories, Seanan McGuire, or speculative scifi/fantasy, this should be a good collection for you.
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