Jenn Northington
Auteur van Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices
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I'm not all that familiar with the love surrounding King Author and all of that. But even knowing nothing I still thoroughly enjoyed this book. The stories were lovely and the inclusion was spell-binding. I highly recommend this book to people who like anthologies and retellings.
Very strong collection of stories putting fresh spins on well-worn mythology. Hard to rate when there's such variety but there's a good number of 5 star efforts in here and nothing below what I'd call 3 star so I'll say 4 overall.
A pretty interesting collection of stories in and around Arthurian legends. It’s definitely interesting to see what the authors felt most compelled to use as their entry points—a lot of Merlin and Elaine/relationships to Lancelot, and I would say probably not as much on like the Sword in the Stone. I think I found the “present” stories to be the most compelling, though I did love Ausma Zehanat Khan’s “The Once and Future Qadi ” as an opener to the collection. The future ones I sort of struggled with more, though I did enjoy Alexander Chee’s story quite a bit. But overall I think I enjoyed the collection and would recommend it to others.… (meer)
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- 2
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- 207
- Populariteit
- #106,920
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 7
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