Follow-up to the previous book post

[sholio]

Despite having mixed feelings on some aspects of H.G. Parry's book, I still enjoyed it a lot, and went and checked out the author's website. It's her first novel, but she has some short fiction, most of it online, and I really enjoyed those a lot!

My favorites:

Material Without Being Real - Set post-WWI, the dead are coming back, and teenage Edith is afraid that what has come back in her brother's place is not really her brother ... but no one will believe her. This was my favorite; it's deliciously creepy, twisty, and yet more warm/sweet than horrific.

Electricity Bill for a Darkling Plain - Four immortals share a house after answering a Craigslist ad. I'd totally watch a movie based on this. (Contains suicide as a plot point.)

Until We Find Better Magic - A magician visits the underworld to retrieve the woman he has a crush on. I think I was expecting this to go a very different way than it actually goes, but I liked the way it went better than what I thought it was going to be; it hits some iddy-for-me arranged-marriage tropes in a nice way.

Comments

[bemused_writer]

Ohh, all three of these summaries sound very interesting! Four immortals answering a Craigslist ad in particular sounds like something out of What We Do In the Shadows and I love it. ^^

[sovay]

Until We Find Better Magic - A magician visits the underworld to retrieve the woman he has a crush on.

I enjoyed this very much and I will bet anything the author imprinted on Peter S. Beagle, specifically The Last Unicorn, at a formative age. (φωρὸς δ' ἴχνια φὼρ ἔμαθον.)

[rose_griffes]

Ooh, those are some interesting blurbs!

[sophia_sol]

I really liked that last story, thanks for linking it!