pickSurreal urban fantasy dense with novelistic details, focusing on family history, grief, death, expectations, and growing up. Sean Stewart is one of my favorite authors and criminally underrated. I always appreciate his use of fantasy elements: they're never truly the center of the story, but they provide a dark color to the themes and a redemptive twist at the end. My ebook has illustrations by Marc Taro Holmes, which were also great.
so-soFrustrating. This book went from pan to pick to so-so. It's a dark fantasy dealing with angels (more like psychics than the winged ones), fate, grief, redemption and loss. Its subtle, reminds me of Bradbury at time, with its darkness in shadows and hiding in corners. The lackluster ending keeps me from giving a pick. 3 💥💥💥
so-soI reserve Pan for books that I don‘t think are worth anyone‘s time, and this had some well-written passages and a couple sort-of neat, if poorly handled, twists at the end, but it is definitely the first real dud of my #SummerOfShort
A dark family drama in a world where magic has been seeping back into the world since the ‘70s seems like it would be my bag, but nope. I‘m not giving up on Sean Stewart though. His Galveston is an all-time favorite.
“Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you‘re just lost.”
This book ain‘t great, but I liked that.
#SummerOfShort
I read and loved Sean Stewart‘s World Fantasy Award-winning Galveston back in college, then never read anything else by him. So here we are.
Dig the exceptionally ‘90s layout of this cover.
#SummerOfShort #Starting
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