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Enchantment Place
Seventeen original stories about a mall where anything you can imagine is for sale-but who will pay the price?
The stores in Enchantment Place live up to the title, catering to a rather unique clientele ranging from vampires and werecreatures to wizards and witches, elves and unicorns' in short, anyone with shopping needs not likely to be met in the chain stores. Here are seventeen shopping trips you'll never forget, from a store that sells the highest quality familiars, to the non-magical daughter of a magic-filled family who is left to mind the family jewelry store though she has no means to defeat an enchanting thief, to a woman running a Wiccan supply store who is suddenly faced with an IRS audit?
The stores in Enchantment Place live up to the title, catering to a rather unique clientele ranging from vampires and werecreatures to wizards and witches, elves and unicorns' in short, anyone with shopping needs not likely to be met in the chain stores. Here are seventeen shopping trips you'll never forget, from a store that sells the highest quality familiars, to the non-magical daughter of a magic-filled family who is left to mind the family jewelry store though she has no means to defeat an enchanting thief, to a woman running a Wiccan supply store who is suddenly faced with an IRS audit?
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2008
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August 7, 2011
Honestly, I feel like a bit of a jerk giving this a higher score than Sixteen, which overall is of higher quality, but it's all about what you expect versus what you get. With Sixteen, I expected something lighthearted, but moving about sixteenth years. What I got was depression. With Enchantment Place, I expected a mediocre anthology about a magic mall with some good and some bad stories and for most of them to be comic. That is what I got.
I will admit I liked the first story by Mary Jo Putney, a cute tale which introduces us the the mall and the type of customers it might have from the point of a mundane human, and the next story from Esther Friesner, a story about a magical familiar hamster, so much that I expected a much better selection of stories after reading the first two, but the rest of the series eventually settled into more of what I might have guessed was coming based on previous anthology experiences.
A few stories disappointed more than others including one about a woman who only finds her magic when she finds her soulmate (UGH) and another about a woman who buckles down and finds herself good at doing something for the first time after years of being a wastrel and that ruins her whole life. Great life lessons, no?
Others are just forgettable. As in, I read the summary up top and I asked myself, "Wiccan supply store and an IRS audit? What?" And after I recalled it, I realized it was one of the latter stories in the book!
If you like anthologies about comedic uses of magic, give this a try. Heck, I picked up the fact that I might possibly like the work of a romance author (Mary Jo Putney) out of it and that's enough to make me smile.
Reviewed at: http://sunhibooks.blogspot.com/2011/0...
I will admit I liked the first story by Mary Jo Putney, a cute tale which introduces us the the mall and the type of customers it might have from the point of a mundane human, and the next story from Esther Friesner, a story about a magical familiar hamster, so much that I expected a much better selection of stories after reading the first two, but the rest of the series eventually settled into more of what I might have guessed was coming based on previous anthology experiences.
A few stories disappointed more than others including one about a woman who only finds her magic when she finds her soulmate (UGH) and another about a woman who buckles down and finds herself good at doing something for the first time after years of being a wastrel and that ruins her whole life. Great life lessons, no?
Others are just forgettable. As in, I read the summary up top and I asked myself, "Wiccan supply store and an IRS audit? What?" And after I recalled it, I realized it was one of the latter stories in the book!
If you like anthologies about comedic uses of magic, give this a try. Heck, I picked up the fact that I might possibly like the work of a romance author (Mary Jo Putney) out of it and that's enough to make me smile.
Reviewed at: http://sunhibooks.blogspot.com/2011/0...
May 26, 2015
An interesting premise. 17 short stories about a mall that caters to paranormal clients. My two favorite stories were "Shining On" by Mary Jo Putney and "Witch Stichery" by Deb Stover. Both had interesting set-ups, well defined characters, and a complete story arc in an abbreviated page count.
"Fire and Sweet Music" by Diane A.S. Stuckart, "Think Small" by Melanie Fletcher, and "Steel Crazy" by Laura Hayden were very good, but not great.
I did not find any of the remaining dozen stories to be interesting or memorable, but neither were they poorly written.
"Fire and Sweet Music" by Diane A.S. Stuckart, "Think Small" by Melanie Fletcher, and "Steel Crazy" by Laura Hayden were very good, but not great.
I did not find any of the remaining dozen stories to be interesting or memorable, but neither were they poorly written.
January 20, 2010
A good set of stories, many of which had at least some interconnections (and the others would have benefited from such). The stories were all pretty good, with some fun twists. My inner 8-year-old found "The Poop Thief" amusing and also- sort-of- plausible, though this was not the tone of the book as a whole (but it was a very fun last story!).
July 13, 2009
Fluffy goodness, a series of stories all set (to some extent) in a mall that caters to magical clientele. There were a couple of duds, but largely the stories were fun. I would be very happy to see some of them expanded into novels.
March 30, 2010
Quite well written collection, and truly i admire this ones editor, she seems to have organized bunch of different authors not only to write on the same theme in larger scale, but to put the storyline in a one place, thus giving us different aspects of it...
September 18, 2011
A very cute and funny anthology! I wasn't sure what I expected but was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this one!! Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys teen reads (it does take place in a mall after all!)!
January 22, 2013
I am only on the 3rd short story but this book is fantastic, a mall where the other world shop. Fantastic, the first two stories were great if the book keeps up I will be lending this to everyone I know. Fun and quick, easy read. Did I say fun?
July 9, 2014
A good anthology.
I have a retail job, so a collection of fantasy stories in a setting that I can identify with was nice. Speaking of setting, each story has a shared setting. A mall of magical shops in Chicago called Enchantment place.
I have a retail job, so a collection of fantasy stories in a setting that I can identify with was nice. Speaking of setting, each story has a shared setting. A mall of magical shops in Chicago called Enchantment place.
October 31, 2013
Loved this anthology! Actually, I like all the anthologies put together by Denise Little.
August 4, 2021
Really enjoyed this fun and whimsical anthology. I enjoyed pretty much every story (except a couple towards the end), but overall a good read. It was cute and comical. I would read an anthology edited by Denise Little again, should I happen upon one.
October 7, 2021
A bit of fun. I thought the first story was the best one.
April 1, 2010
If you're into all the vampire, supernatural books (i.e. Sookie Stackhouse, Twilight) then you'll probably enjoy this bunch of stories by different authors centered around a mall for the supernatural.
August 12, 2010
Like most anthologies it was uneven with some stories being much better than others in terms of plot, setting, character and novelty. Overall the collection was interesting and moderately entertaining, but it wasn't anything special.
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April 16, 2010
Meh. Stories that ranged from okay to tedious, and all unmemorable.
October 11, 2009
Liked the story about the shoe shiner. The rest were just ok. Nothing spectacular.
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