Worlds' End
Nov. 23rd, 2021 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishAn interlude between Fables & Reflections and The Kindly Ones. Individual tales with a framing story to connect them: varied travelers lost in a storm take refuge at the Inn of Worlds' End.
So it's another anthology collection, but one with a frame story. To be honest the frame story only mostly worked for me. I appreciate how it ties in to the larger world and to Dream's forthcoming funeral procession, but ... eh. "People from our world get caught up in magic and refuse to believe it" is a theme that just doesn't do much for me anymore.
I found the individual stories mostly memorable but not brilliantly so. Nothing that grabbed me as much as the tales from Fables & Reflections. The worldbuilding in the Cluracan's tale and in Cerements is fantastic, of course, and the city's dream is pleasantly unsettling, but ... eh. Just didn't quite gel.
Or I'm just in a grumpy mood. Also always possible.
So it's another anthology collection, but one with a frame story. To be honest the frame story only mostly worked for me. I appreciate how it ties in to the larger world and to Dream's forthcoming funeral procession, but ... eh. "People from our world get caught up in magic and refuse to believe it" is a theme that just doesn't do much for me anymore.
I found the individual stories mostly memorable but not brilliantly so. Nothing that grabbed me as much as the tales from Fables & Reflections. The worldbuilding in the Cluracan's tale and in Cerements is fantastic, of course, and the city's dream is pleasantly unsettling, but ... eh. Just didn't quite gel.
Or I'm just in a grumpy mood. Also always possible.