Reviews are the opinions of the individual reviewers and not necessarily those of The Chiaroscuro as an entity unto itself. This is called an anthology. Anthologies are usually pretty good. Sometimes a small publisher slaps together a bunch of stories from its various publications in an effort to conjure some interest in their stables of lesser-known writers. This is called a sampler.
Samplers usually suck big hairy eyeballs.
This one s a sampler. Not so fast, buster. Turns out, even the little guy gets his moment in the sun sometimes. Brian Hopkins, Chief of Stuff at Lone Wolf, has managed to put together a tough little package of tales that is firmly in league with the big boys. Well, not always.