Review: Fun & Adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2009
As other reviewer have done a great job of summarizing the book, I won't repeat the summary here. I was nervous about purchasing the book based on the idea that it was 3 short stories. It's not that price was an issue - the author set a very low price which more than compensated for the length of the book. I was just a little leery because of the basic limitation in shorter works. In a short story, the author has very little time & space to set up the characters. In a fantasy setting, where the author has to set up a world for the characters and then set up the characters, short fiction is even harder and it takes a lot of talent for an author to overcome this. I thought Ms. Schneider did a great job. The world-building was a little sketchy but the characters and the story content more than compensated.My only complaint is that I'd really like to see more stories, or better yet a novel, set in this world. While there weren't any loose ends in the stories themselves, there are endless possibilities.