catevari's review
4.0
The stories Hambly self-publishes as “Further Adventures” are continuations of her fantasy novels that I grew up reading, and as such, have a very tender and special place in my heart. Especially when she’s writing in the universe of The Windrose Chronicles, which still stands as my favorite series, though I love them all.
This particular novelette feels like a kind of fusion with Bride of the Rat God (one of her few standalones, but incredibly good) in that it also involves the ridiculous yet also direly serious world of movie making. Though, in this case, it’s the schlocky world of 80s action movies.
Short stories are difficult for a lot of authors, especially those who are habitually novelists; often they feel incomplete or like too big a story jammed into too brief a word count. Though it’s arguably NOT complete, as Joanna and Antryg will go on to (hopefully) have many adventures after this, the fragment of their lives it’s taken from feels like a whole event, even as it teases at new worlds and other stories we’ll never know the whole of.
This particular novelette feels like a kind of fusion with Bride of the Rat God (one of her few standalones, but incredibly good) in that it also involves the ridiculous yet also direly serious world of movie making. Though, in this case, it’s the schlocky world of 80s action movies.
Short stories are difficult for a lot of authors, especially those who are habitually novelists; often they feel incomplete or like too big a story jammed into too brief a word count. Though it’s arguably NOT complete, as Joanna and Antryg will go on to (hopefully) have many adventures after this, the fragment of their lives it’s taken from feels like a whole event, even as it teases at new worlds and other stories we’ll never know the whole of.
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