A review by bookaneer
The Sum Of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound by Heather Osborne, Christie Yant, James Van Pelt, Tyler Keevil, Brenda Cooper, Lucas K. Law, Dominik Parisien, Claire Humphrey, Bev Geddes, Alex Shvartsman, Colleen Anderson, Matt Moore, Edward Willett, Juliet Marillier, Caroline M. Yoachim, Susan Forest, Nisi Shawl, Ian Creasey, Charlotte Ashley, Amanda Sun, Karina Sumner-Smith, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Sandra Kasturi, Hayden Trenholm, A.M. Dellamonica, Kate Story
4.0
4.5 stars. I regret that I let this fantastic collection languishing in my TBR shelf for two years. It is actually one of the best collections I read in years!
23 tales of caregivers. There's a space welder apprentice, a seeing-eye dog with a power of speech, a companion to an ant-like alien queen, a hardened soldier in the frontier, a therapy cat serving the Goddess Bast, a monster hunter, there are so many marvelous POVs that are so engaging to read.
In his introduction, Dominik Parisien said that The Sum of Us asks 'Who cares for the caregivers?' The answer is the other caregivers....and us, the reader. We read this to show our care, our recognition of their personhood, inner lives, matter beyond the myriad of ways they can help us. Perhaps, we are caregivers too, most of us at some point in our lives, in some fashion.
Most of the authors are unknown to me except for a few like Caroline Yoachim and Juliet Marilier. I'll be sure looking forward to these new authors in the future, as well as the editors. Great job, kudos!
Thank you for the publisher, Laksa Media, for the review copy.
23 tales of caregivers. There's a space welder apprentice, a seeing-eye dog with a power of speech, a companion to an ant-like alien queen, a hardened soldier in the frontier, a therapy cat serving the Goddess Bast, a monster hunter, there are so many marvelous POVs that are so engaging to read.
In his introduction, Dominik Parisien said that The Sum of Us asks 'Who cares for the caregivers?' The answer is the other caregivers....and us, the reader. We read this to show our care, our recognition of their personhood, inner lives, matter beyond the myriad of ways they can help us. Perhaps, we are caregivers too, most of us at some point in our lives, in some fashion.
Most of the authors are unknown to me except for a few like Caroline Yoachim and Juliet Marilier. I'll be sure looking forward to these new authors in the future, as well as the editors. Great job, kudos!
Thank you for the publisher, Laksa Media, for the review copy.