Reviews

One Thousand Words for War by Cathy Bryant, Susan Bianculli, Nori Odoi, Darrel Duckworth, Mara Dabrishus, Steve DuBois, Laura Ring, Walt Socha, Anthony R. Cardno, Bethany Marcello, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Renee Whittington, Valerie Hunter, C.H. Spalding, Madeline Smoot, Hope Erica Schultz, Anne E. Johnson, Ameria Lewis, Lisa Timpf

errantdreams's review

3.0

One Thousand Words for War is an anthology that didn’t do it for me. At its best, an anthology entertains you with its short stories, and hopefully thus allows you to find another author or two whose work you enjoy. Ratings tend not to go through the roof, because not everyone is going to like every story in the anthology. Unfortunately, now there’s a new trend making anthologies less enticing. While it’s true that a good anthology introduces you to new authors and their worlds, a bad one includes stories that don’t stand alone, and which function only as advertisements for an author’s other work. Smoot and Schultz did a halfway decent job picking stories, but there are some that definitely don’t stand alone for me. The active theme in this book is war in all its forms; I think the theme is overly vague and resulted in some stories that didn’t seem to suit it well.


NOTE: Book provided free for review by publisher.
Original review on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/04/review-one-thousand-words-for-war/