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If you've read both Malazan and the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas this reads about halfway in between. The gore and macabre humor of B&KB but the soldier comraderie of Malazan. By far my favorite short story by Erikson.
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Now this was a huge disappointment for me. There's a Howard story and a Moorcock story because they have to, but with most of the entries I was really wondering how they made it into a Sword & Sorcery anthology in the first place. Because as far as I am concerned, most of them are severely lacking in both swords and in sorcery. Sword & Sorcery means action and adventure and dangerous beasts and evil sorcerers. Which are hardly found anywhere in this book.
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As with most anthologies I liked some stories more than others, but I didn't rate any of these less than three stars. My favorites were the Steven Erikson, Tim Lebbon and Joe Abercrombie stories. There are different styles and types of stories in this one and a couple that I think blur the lines of sword and sorcery but overall I really enjoyed this collection.
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Excellent read!! Normally with short story collections I cannot read the whole book. This was not the case with this one. With the exception of maybe a couple of stories I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would be very pleased to see more released like this one.
Feb 05, 2017
Greg
marked it as to-read
Mar 31, 2017
Christopher
marked it as to-read
