A review by drewsof
The Brink: Stories by Austin Bunn

4.0

As good as the stories are individually and as well as the collection coheres as a single object (held together by that spine), there's something lacking in the final resolve. I put the collection down and thought "oh, very good" and moved on and felt nothing more about it. I'll read whatever Bunn writes next (and I now want to see Kill Your Darlings) but I feel strangely like the collection didn't strike me at that deeper level, despite each story feeling perfectly poised. Perhaps it was the perfection of it all that bothered me - or perhaps I'll be proved wrong in time, with this collection hanging around long after I'd assumed I'd forget. Perhaps it'll be that spine that will stir memories every time I see it on the shelf. Time will tell, I suppose.

More at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2015/04/27/the-brink/