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angielisle's review
3.0
Irish Celts
This is the second collection I've read by The Eclective - the first was more horror-centric where this collection is romanticized (I prefer horror). I averaged my ratings for each story for the collection's rating: 3-stars.
I read this on the eve of my father's open-heart surgery so I might be emotionally biased toward the very last tale in the collection - Five Shamrocks, by Alan Nayes - which made me teary. It's my favorite story in the collection.
There are a couple editing errors scattered through the collection. One story - The Red Veil of Vengeance by Jack Wallen - failed to hook me because of a chronology-slash-incorrect word usage: the year given is 406AD and the main character (Kurvail) is a "descendant" of Vlad Tsepes, who was born 1431 so descendant was the wrong word choice (ancestor or predecessor would fit better). The chronology-incorrect use of a word kept me from getting sucked into the story - which sucks because this story cleverly plays off a legendary figure and I wish that one detail hadn't nagged me through the tale.
I've downloaded a couple more free collections by The Eclective to peruse so obviously I feel that this group warrants reading.
This is the second collection I've read by The Eclective - the first was more horror-centric where this collection is romanticized (I prefer horror). I averaged my ratings for each story for the collection's rating: 3-stars.
I read this on the eve of my father's open-heart surgery so I might be emotionally biased toward the very last tale in the collection - Five Shamrocks, by Alan Nayes - which made me teary. It's my favorite story in the collection.
There are a couple editing errors scattered through the collection. One story - The Red Veil of Vengeance by Jack Wallen - failed to hook me because of a chronology-slash-incorrect word usage: the year given is 406AD and the main character (Kurvail) is a "descendant" of Vlad Tsepes, who was born 1431 so descendant was the wrong word choice (ancestor or predecessor would fit better). The chronology-incorrect use of a word kept me from getting sucked into the story - which sucks because this story cleverly plays off a legendary figure and I wish that one detail hadn't nagged me through the tale.
I've downloaded a couple more free collections by The Eclective to peruse so obviously I feel that this group warrants reading.
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