Book review: Strip Mauled
Jun. 27th, 2010 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigertoyToday's book review is Strip Mauled edited by Esther M. Friesner.
This is another anthology of suburban fantasy stories, a companion to Witch Way to the Mall?, but focusing on werewolves instead of witches. I think the quality of the stories is really quite similar -- many are actually sequels to the stories in the previous volume by the same authors -- but I enjoyed this book noticeably more because I really like werewolves while I'm more tepid about witches. To be fair, I suspect that the joke of putting blatantly fantastic tropes against the backdrop of the most soul-crushingly mundane environment known -- archtypical Suburbia -- would be wearing pretty thin in the second book. But, you know, werewolves.
8 out of 10.
This is another anthology of suburban fantasy stories, a companion to Witch Way to the Mall?, but focusing on werewolves instead of witches. I think the quality of the stories is really quite similar -- many are actually sequels to the stories in the previous volume by the same authors -- but I enjoyed this book noticeably more because I really like werewolves while I'm more tepid about witches. To be fair, I suspect that the joke of putting blatantly fantastic tropes against the backdrop of the most soul-crushingly mundane environment known -- archtypical Suburbia -- would be wearing pretty thin in the second book. But, you know, werewolves.
8 out of 10.
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Date: 2010-06-28 02:12 am (UTC)