A review by greeniezona
Afromyth: A Fantasy Collection by James Pyne, Darrel Duckworth, N.D. Jones, Marija Smits, Sarah L. Byrne, Clive Tern, Gary Priest, Brittney Sankofa, Mallory St. Cloud, J.S. Emuakpor, Lela E. Buis
4.0
Anthologies are still not my thing, but I'm still trying, and I figured this one would be worth the effort as not only is it from a fellow micro press, but one of the stories is written by someone I know online. I ended up liking it fairly well. (Which really is about as highly as I've ever praised an anthology.)
All of the stories had something that I liked about them -- there wasn't any dead weight here. There were, of course, some standouts. My favorite is probably "Death in Nairobi," a detective story with a mystical twist, but I also really liked "The Eyes of the Goddess," which often felt like a folktale, "The Black Birds of White Oaks," which mixes Greek myth with post-Civil War reckoning, and even "Fishing Lake Tanganyika," which is a neat little horror story.
Happy my local library picked this up.
All of the stories had something that I liked about them -- there wasn't any dead weight here. There were, of course, some standouts. My favorite is probably "Death in Nairobi," a detective story with a mystical twist, but I also really liked "The Eyes of the Goddess," which often felt like a folktale, "The Black Birds of White Oaks," which mixes Greek myth with post-Civil War reckoning, and even "Fishing Lake Tanganyika," which is a neat little horror story.
Happy my local library picked this up.