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Es stimmt, meine Traudel ist irgendwie die bösartigste Vampirin der Anthologie xd Was Jahrzehnte aufgestauter Wut in engen Rollenbildern so anrichtet.

Bite & Breakfast ist bislang mein Favorit

Beim Lesen laut lachen müssen ist immer ein gutes Zeichen.

Ich werde keine Rezi von einer Anthologie schreiben, an der ich selbst beteiligt bin, Voreingenommenheit und so. Aber ich mag die Vielfalt (inklusive Neopronomen), die CNs, liebe das Cover und die Innengestaltung.

Definetely better makkng my husband read it out loud to me than reading it myself. Humour would get on my nerves way faster for sure.

Zurück bei der Recherche. Gebe zu, ich fange an, etwas quer zu lesen, wenn die Einordnungen etwas ausschweifend und wiederholend werden und mich das "wir" nicht anspricht. Es gibt auch nicht-religiöse Menschen, die dieses Buch aus andrren Gründen lesen.

Re-read nach vielen Jahren. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich Band 1 zu unzusammenhängend fand und die Serie erst nach der Veröffentlichung von Band 4 wiederaufnahm - und liebte. Es ist besser geschrieben als die Drei-Schwerter-Serie, an deren Re-Read ich scheiterte. Die Übersetzung ist super, und Williams selbst bleibt dicht an den Perspektiven, was das Mitfiebern erleichtert. Die Hinweise auf den Twist sind brillant.

That last one hurt. Good craft! Now I'm curious if the final story which is the single longest in this anthology will hold my attention. I pfrefer my short stories to be - short.

There are always short stories you like more or less than others in an anthology. But funny to encounter this effect within a story itself!

Cute premise, more than flawed execution. Never established how the Buildings walk (grew legs and arms, I guess, suddenly mentioning knees and hands) or kiss and why nowbody gets crushed or damaged. If you have an idea, commit to it. Funny that the first Story I didn't like comes from the highest decorated author up to hhis point.

That was surprisingly cute while staying true to the classic vampire concept.

Funny thing, picking up this book, reading the introduction by my most favourite author (Beagle) just to have him mention Ursula Le Guin, "wisest of us all", whose works I just recently discovered and start to admire more and more.

"Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das Leben will." Albert Schweitzer. See what you did there. :)

As I hoped with the arrival of the robot we really get started

The book is reatively short and I begin to understabd why. This scene right here could have been two or three chapters at least without being boring, but it us condensed, very centered on Dex' thoughts and mindspace alone, less on interaction. A deliberate choice for sure and at the same time chosing specific details. It doesn't grab me immideately as Wayfarer did but I'll wait and see.

Now I wish we had tiny rolling tea-houses where you can talk about your problems. - already live the vibes as you can tell :)

Zurück in Deutschland :)

Glad we didn't linger on The Liar Revealed. I don't like this trope because it disregards everything that happened beforehand. Nice way of dealing with it after the initial reaction. Let's go!

That was very sweet, a unique way to describe a sex scene and very fitting for those characters.

Didn't pay attention if this book is listed as romantasy but it became more horny than I expected. Sometimes those two sound more like teenagers, but they have good reasons nit to act on it and I really do care if they end up together already. Bit of overwriting, though.

Pretty convinced by now that the sudden switches in perspective are due to poor layout. In other cases there are blanc lins separating paragraphs where neither the perspective or the scene changes. Pity because layout can be a great tool for dramatic purposes but I don't pin this one on the author anymore.

I'm a bit irritated by the change of perspective within a scene that creep in from time to time. And there are repetative thoughts now and then as if the author forgot she already told us that. One more round of editing could have prevented that. Still lots of fun, though

Getting a better grasp on both characters and liking their chemistry :)

Went to London for a holiday and didn't want to take my current read about Germany - so I started this one. It's breezy and at times amusing, but the main character is such an overthinker and seriously lacks focus I already started reading faster and rolling my eyes. Fortunately it picks up pace when Sarkis appears. Obviously Kingfisher did this all on purpose but it treats a fine line to being annoying anyways.

... und dann kommt dieses Kapitel, bissig, deutlich, politisch, unangenehm. Schön ausgespielt.

Finde die kleinen Anekdotenhäppchen gerade schön entspannend, auch wenn natürlich nicht alle gleich landen. Als Familienvater schreibt Kaminer mehr darüber, es wirkt milder als Russendisco, ist aber interessanter als die Schrebergarten-Geschichten, due ich abgebrochen hab.