Reviews

Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

kaigairg's review

3.0

My thoughts:

http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_datlow_windling_salon.html

kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review

3.0

The three best stories in this anthology are "Le Fee Verte" by Delia Sherman, "Femaville 29" by Paul Di Filippo, and "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" by Lavie Tidhar (which is an excellent story about the effects of terrorism). There is a wonderful sense of place and time in those stories and make the book a keeper. The other stories are mixed. For instance, "The Guardian of the Egg" has some wonderful descriptions but the plot is predictable. Other stories just aren't engrossing; they aren't bad but not overly memorable.