Story collections are a tricky thing for me, for this book I liked the stories but o erall didnt feel they fit in with the story from the other books. Death and Night was a preqil but it diddnt add anything to what we knew already. Poison and Gold was the best of the stories but I dodnt feel the romance element was nessisary, I think the story would have been fine on its own as story of self discovery. Rose and Sword was about life changes and aceptance of the inevitable. But again i didnt feel it was nessisary. I think why I liked Poison and Gold was because it focused on another characher and the main characters where in the background so if that was the sams case for the other stories I would have liked them more. Id still reccomend this book for soneing who lokes the series.