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angrywombat's review
4.0
And her stories continue.
I adore the background of these stories - a strange northern europe consisting of equal parts history, myth, and fairy tale. Sasha herself is a curious mix of brutal, pragmatic, and wise.
The stories fully deliver on the "pulp fantasy" promise with the five short stories - they are full of disturbing places and active characters. Each story is just long enough to tease out a problem for Sasha, but never so long as to get boring.
The only issue i have is that Sasha has become even more self-confident since the last book, and less concerned at the dangers she faces. Even Conan had moments of "oh crap i'm over my head". But even so, I loved trying to figure out how Sasha would overcome each problem - what was the trick she would pull? And in the best traditions of pulp, the answer was nearly always already given, you just need to figure it out :)
Again I hope to see a longer story about Sasha Witchblood. Maybe in the next collection?
I adore the background of these stories - a strange northern europe consisting of equal parts history, myth, and fairy tale. Sasha herself is a curious mix of brutal, pragmatic, and wise.
The stories fully deliver on the "pulp fantasy" promise with the five short stories - they are full of disturbing places and active characters. Each story is just long enough to tease out a problem for Sasha, but never so long as to get boring.
The only issue i have is that Sasha has become even more self-confident since the last book, and less concerned at the dangers she faces. Even Conan had moments of "oh crap i'm over my head". But even so, I loved trying to figure out how Sasha would overcome each problem - what was the trick she would pull? And in the best traditions of pulp, the answer was nearly always already given, you just need to figure it out :)
Again I hope to see a longer story about Sasha Witchblood. Maybe in the next collection?
niwandajones's review
5.0
I love, love, love the Sasha Witchblood stories. Such excellent sword-and-sorcery (or in Sasha's case: fist-and-sorcery, or knife-made-from-the-thorns-that-protected-Sleeping-Beauty's-castle-and-sorcery, but you get the idea).
And one story had the best use of a character that is an owl that I've seen on a while.
And one story had the best use of a character that is an owl that I've seen on a while.
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