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Roar #5
Roar Volume 5
Can you keep a secret?
Secrets are made to be broken they say, but what of the consequences? When secrets come to light who profits, who suffers, and who triumphs?
ROAR volume 5 has arrived with a thrilling new set of tales. Fourteen authors have crafted stories exploring and exploiting the secrets held by their characters. When the last page is turned, will there be anything left to reveal?
It won’t be a secret for long—
Secrets are made to be broken they say, but what of the consequences? When secrets come to light who profits, who suffers, and who triumphs?
ROAR volume 5 has arrived with a thrilling new set of tales. Fourteen authors have crafted stories exploring and exploiting the secrets held by their characters. When the last page is turned, will there be anything left to reveal?
It won’t be a secret for long—
326 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2014
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January 3, 2024
Picked this book up finally after having used a playmat with the cover art on it for years. I wanted to find out what the book had in store for years but never got around to it. While I didn't connect with as many of the stories as I was hoping, there were still quite a few standouts for me.
Reynard and the Dragon was a lovely blend of English folktales and Norse mythology that was especially welcome for me after my recent read through of a retelling of Reynard's legend. The characters felt vibrant and the action scenes were tense and thrilling.
The Color of Mantis has some of the most unique aspects for a furry story I've seen in a while. Set in a convent and focusing on an insect as the primary anthropomorphic characters led to some very enjoyable passages to read. I loved the dreamlike sequences and how Maria developed as a character over the course of the story.
R&D had a very fun heist feel to the story and a series of twists I was not expecting. The way that the magic is described feels like it's part of a larger universe and I wouldn't be surprised if this was just one piece of a larger narrative.
Oakdale deftly describes the bone-chilling feeling that you feel when a family member becomes alien to you. The way that it describes the fallout of a radicalized family member on said family was one that affected me quite a lot. I had to pause reading at points so that I could give myself space to breathe. Poor Markus doesn't have that luxury unfortunately. I wish the ending was a little less anti-climatic, but it's a highlight of the anthology for me for sure.
Variables is a ringer for this list because it's a romance story where the main character doesn't understand emotions and is learning how to date on the fly. Uncomfortably relatable is definitely a genre of story that will always hit for me. Esten's status as a robot helps to give some believability to the misunderstandings that happen throughout. I felt like it was a nice story to end the anthology on as well.
Reynard and the Dragon was a lovely blend of English folktales and Norse mythology that was especially welcome for me after my recent read through of a retelling of Reynard's legend. The characters felt vibrant and the action scenes were tense and thrilling.
The Color of Mantis has some of the most unique aspects for a furry story I've seen in a while. Set in a convent and focusing on an insect as the primary anthropomorphic characters led to some very enjoyable passages to read. I loved the dreamlike sequences and how Maria developed as a character over the course of the story.
R&D had a very fun heist feel to the story and a series of twists I was not expecting. The way that the magic is described feels like it's part of a larger universe and I wouldn't be surprised if this was just one piece of a larger narrative.
Oakdale deftly describes the bone-chilling feeling that you feel when a family member becomes alien to you. The way that it describes the fallout of a radicalized family member on said family was one that affected me quite a lot. I had to pause reading at points so that I could give myself space to breathe. Poor Markus doesn't have that luxury unfortunately. I wish the ending was a little less anti-climatic, but it's a highlight of the anthology for me for sure.
Variables is a ringer for this list because it's a romance story where the main character doesn't understand emotions and is learning how to date on the fly. Uncomfortably relatable is definitely a genre of story that will always hit for me. Esten's status as a robot helps to give some believability to the misunderstandings that happen throughout. I felt like it was a nice story to end the anthology on as well.
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November 5, 2014A collection themed around secrets, good and bad, sinister and plain bizarre. There are furries in the traditional sense, but also werewolves and alley cats. Standout stories for me were 'The Wharf Cat's Mermaid', simply sweet with a very real San Francisco setting, and 'Oakdale', set in a boarding-school for wolves, but the overall quality is high and everything was not only readable but made me desperate to know the secret.
Contains my story, 'The Painted and the Plain', in which a young African wild dog returns to her village after her first year at university.
Contains my story, 'The Painted and the Plain', in which a young African wild dog returns to her village after her first year at university.
January 6, 2016
Great anthology book revolving around the theme of secrets. Keeping them, discovering them, revealing them. Genres range from fantasy settings with mythology thrown in to more historical settings or more familiar modern settings with sci fi elements and more.
As usual some stood out more than others but there were more great stories and interesting concepts in this then there were boring tales.
In all another great volume of ROAR.
As usual some stood out more than others but there were more great stories and interesting concepts in this then there were boring tales.
In all another great volume of ROAR.
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