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The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010 by Talie Helene, Liz Grzyb

thiefofcamorr's review against another edition

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5.0

Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team.

To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the AA are over.

michelle_e_goldsmith's review

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4.0

4-4.5

I'd read quite a few anthologies lately and hundreds of fantasy and horror stories (for work and pleasure) yet this collection felt surprisingly fresh and I found myself looking forward to coming home to read it each night. Many of the stories have a distinctly Australian flavour and all in all there were very few that I couldn't quite connect with. There are some absolutely excellent stories here and despite their varying tones the collection works admirably well as a whole. There were stories that made me laugh, stories that left me elated, stories that scared me and one that actually made me tear up.

I'll most likely write a more detailed review mentioning some of my favourite stories at a later date.

Highly recommended. Personally, I can't wait for the 2011 anthology.
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