Mariella Taylor’s Reviews > Unexpected Encounters of a Draconic Kind and Other Stories > Status Update

Read through two. I still love these first two stories with my whole heart.

No Man's Jungle gives me Indiana Jones and Marion vibes. That was a fun one.

Sir Gawain and the Green Thumb will never not make me smile. Always a good laugh.

Listen, I have read multiple versions of Tiger Bright, but this one...ooof. This one, man. It landed and it landed hard, with teeth and claws and death clinging to it.

Gave me vibes of the OG Jungle Book stories, along with bits of things like Tarzan but with a different culture.

“I...I’ve already lost so much,” I choke out. “What’s a little bit more?”

WHAT IS THAT LINE, MADAM.

Just a Henchwoman hit the other side of my feels hard. Failed mom figures and relational grief as themes just. *chef's kiss* It'll get me every time.

"I don't know anything about magic! I'm a killer clown!"

I'm not saying the dialogue in Topsy-Turvy Tiger is wild, but it is WILD. What a great, twisted sense of humor in this one.

I just finished the new version of Mer-child. I am officially DECEASED. Over-protective father figures will never not end me, just saying.

Listen, I already read this collection in its original format, and the stories I've read--since being edited--are only getting better.