![]() ![]() I was finally ready for Miles! Except it turns out the story was told from Armsman Roic's point of view. Maybe it'll take fantasy authors to show the way. I've said before that I'd love to see romance authors write "after they were married" stories of their couples for anthologies. It was nice seeing a married couple in love. Next up was Jennifer Roberson's Robin and Marian tale, "Shadows in the Wood, where the couple meet Merlin and manage to finish a job left undone in Merlin's time. ![]() I liked the worldbuilding, the quietly heroic male lead, and the evocation of the difficult sacrifices of WWII. I wasn't as taken by the ending as the rest of the story, and didn't really find the stolid heroine (not unusual for a work by Beverley) all that appealing, but was hooked nonetheless. ![]() I've seen someone else point out that she seemed to be writing a metaphor for a war on terror. Her gripping story, "The Trouble with Heroes, was about fairly recent colonists on a hospitable world being terrorized by deadly unseen entities. I had thought, approaching reading this anthology, that I'd immediately dive into Lois McMaster Bujold's "Winterfair Gifts." But my mood veered towards wanting to read Jo Beverley instead, which ended up being a good choice. The Alchemical Marriage by Mary Jo Putney ![]()
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