Small Magicsby Illona Andrews
Rating: ★★★★
isbn: 9781596069619
Publication Date: December 1, 2019
Pages: 455
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Subterranean Press
An anthology of short stories in the Kate Daniels universe.
When I saw here on BookLikes that Sweep with Me was out, I went to Ilona Andrew’s website to find out more, and noticed the release of a new anthology, published by Subterranean Press. Yes please!
This is a compilation of the short stories Ilona Andrews has written, all previously published elsewhere, and for the first time in print, all the Curren POV’s Gordon Andrews has written and posted on their website. Interspersed are 3? full color illustrations.
It’s a nice book – not the most impressive I’ve seen put out by Subterranean, but a good solid book. I’d read some of the stories before, but enough of them were new to me to make me appreciate having bought it.
My only gripe with the book is with the Curran POVs. As a character, these stories don’t always flatter Curran, but that’s trivial. What is really disappointing, though, is the poor copy-editing of the Curran stories. On the website, they’re clear to state that the stories were written for fun, not edited, yada yada. And that’s totally understandable. But I’d have though when it comes to publishing a limited release, numbered, signed, illustrated edition, the publisher, if not the authors themselves, would have wanted to take the time and make the effort to correct, at the very least, the most glaring omissions and errors (lots of the, a, an articles missing, or misplaced).
Ah well, a good collection that might have been great, but still welcome on my shelves.