This anthology goes quickly. It contains sixteen short stories involving the Wild Hunt in some way. The first story was probably my favorite- it has an authentic fairy tale feel to it. Most of the stories are so short that if you aren't taken with one, it's over quickly and you can try a new one. Some tales hew to the traditional view of the hunt but others head into the realm of science fiction or urban fantasy.

Todd Sanders gathers a range of voices in a science fiction anthology as wild and intriguing as its title and cover suggest. There is much to enjoy here in brief story segments.

The Wild Hunt

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The Wild Hunt is an anthology of stories about -you guessed- The Wild Hunt. Most of the stories here are akin to flash fiction. Too short to really enjoy. I believe that most will be forgotten after putting the book down. Some reviews speculate as to wether it's an editing problem. After reading them, I'm not so sure. While I enjoyed three or four of the short narratives, this was not the case for the rest of them. I wanted to like the anthology, unfortunately, as it turned out, there's not much to like here. There's something essential missing: the power to make you feel something for the characters and their various situations. I read through the different worlds presented in the book, encountering some solid settings, some unique individuals, only to be let down by the broad strokes in which those where treated.

Thank you for the advanced copy!

I sometimes struggle with short story anthologies, when the contents are on the shorter side of short. This somewhat impacted my enjoyments of the stories contained here, as I seemed to gel better with those measuring in at 7+ pages, compared to those that measured in at anything less. I failed to find much appreciation for the latter but there were some gems here, in amongst them. Unfortunately, the collection, as a whole, wasn't for me personally, due to the issue mentioned earlier.

It is difficult to approach a mythological story type in a wholly inventive fashion. While some of the stories in this collection attempt this invention, there are several errors in grammar and mechanics that distract from the potential for authenticity of voice. It is difficult to achieve the suspension of disbelief required for fantasy and science fiction when pronouns don't match the antecedent or the verb matches not the subject but the noun in the prepositional phrase. I realize these are not the elements of story that make novels or collections of stories great in terms of story-telling, but in terms of expression and eloquence, these become too distracting to be able to fully enjoy the stories. I think with further editing and a closer eye for standard mechanics, I would be more likely to rate the collection higher.