A review by sandrylene
Elemental Magic by Carol Berg, Rebecca York, Jean Johnson, Sharon Shinn

3.0

I feel bad for saying it, but one of these stories was not really of the caliber of the others, and unfortunately the disappointing one was last, so I had been enjoying it in a "it's not perfect, but it's enjoyable enough" way, and then the last one hit and I felt like it was a whole pile of tell, not show, and I finished on a disappointed note. (Last story felt like one of those "ah, this has happened because you wrote it that way because that was your agenda" and not because it seemed to flow at all.) From the notes on the book, sounds like it might be her first published work, so I mean, fair enough, I suppose, and maybe her later works are better.