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heresthepencil's review against another edition
3.0
It's a risky business, reading anthologies by a group of authors. Not only do we get a set of totally different stories, ideas about how a story should be, but it's impossible for every author in the book to write the way a reader would enjoy. Now imagine how much riskier it gets when you have four authors write one story.
I really enjoyed the chapters by Andrea Pillips and Jacqueline Koyanagi. They were fun, engading and made me want to actually finish the book. But there were also two other writers and unfortunately their chapters made it very clear they were written by men. In the back of your mind, you're always aware that men just see the world in a different way. But it was never as apparent to me as when I was reading Alternis.
It just kind of left like they were undermining all the hard work their female co-writers have done. The characters themselves didn't seem as the same people when written by Broaddus and Myers, somehow more caricature-ish, childish even, sexist.
So I'm left with a difficult question: how to rate this book. Because on one hand I loved the premise, I loved what I saw of the characters from some chapters, I loved parts of the writing. On the other hand, I can't understand why it was this grup of people that was put together to write a book...
I really enjoyed the chapters by Andrea Pillips and Jacqueline Koyanagi. They were fun, engading and made me want to actually finish the book. But there were also two other writers and unfortunately their chapters made it very clear they were written by men. In the back of your mind, you're always aware that men just see the world in a different way. But it was never as apparent to me as when I was reading Alternis.
It just kind of left like they were undermining all the hard work their female co-writers have done. The characters themselves didn't seem as the same people when written by Broaddus and Myers, somehow more caricature-ish, childish even, sexist.
So I'm left with a difficult question: how to rate this book. Because on one hand I loved the premise, I loved what I saw of the characters from some chapters, I loved parts of the writing. On the other hand, I can't understand why it was this grup of people that was put together to write a book...
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