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4.0
Review originally written for my blog
This is the sixth book in the City of the Saved series which is based on the premise that "Everybody has died and woken up together in the city". The short stories all feature different characters and how they deal with their new life. It's a fantastic setting which gives a lot of freedom to the authors which is definitely shown in this collection where all the stories are very different from each other.
Now, I may be slightly biased here because my partner is one of the authors featured here (his is the story about a window seller in suburbia) however even without his story I still loved this collection. The stories were all so varied and dealt with a variety of themes.
The stories themselves are all linked by a frame tale featuring the Knights Hospitallers which I really enjoyed, and I loved the majority of the tales. Ironically, the one I enjoyed least was all about language (which, for those that know me, is very odd given how much I love studying languages and linguistics).
Despite not having read any of the previous books, I still found this very accessible. The only issue I had was understanding what a 'remake' was since they appear in several stories (one focusing heavily on them) but I was able to get enough information from context to understand the story.
I would definitely recommend this collection of short stories to Sci-Fi fans, although I need to point out that it's not available on Amazon and you have to go straight to the publisher if you want an ebook which seems a bit of a strange marketing decision (and unfortunately means I won't be buying any other books in the series as I make my purchases using Amazon Giftcards to control my spending on books)
This is the sixth book in the City of the Saved series which is based on the premise that "Everybody has died and woken up together in the city". The short stories all feature different characters and how they deal with their new life. It's a fantastic setting which gives a lot of freedom to the authors which is definitely shown in this collection where all the stories are very different from each other.
Now, I may be slightly biased here because my partner is one of the authors featured here (his is the story about a window seller in suburbia) however even without his story I still loved this collection. The stories were all so varied and dealt with a variety of themes.
The stories themselves are all linked by a frame tale featuring the Knights Hospitallers which I really enjoyed, and I loved the majority of the tales. Ironically, the one I enjoyed least was all about language (which, for those that know me, is very odd given how much I love studying languages and linguistics).
Despite not having read any of the previous books, I still found this very accessible. The only issue I had was understanding what a 'remake' was since they appear in several stories (one focusing heavily on them) but I was able to get enough information from context to understand the story.
I would definitely recommend this collection of short stories to Sci-Fi fans, although I need to point out that it's not available on Amazon and you have to go straight to the publisher if you want an ebook which seems a bit of a strange marketing decision (and unfortunately means I won't be buying any other books in the series as I make my purchases using Amazon Giftcards to control my spending on books)
readingwithkt's review
I bought this to read a story in it by Robert Shepherd. I did so and enjoyed Shepherd's piece, but didn't want to continue with the anthology (it's high fantasy and I'm in a bit over my depth). Would recommend it to fans of high fantasy and fantasy short stories.
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