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greentea13's review
2.0
Since this is a bunch of stories I will just give my thoughts on each.
Tracy, Destroyer of Worlds by Eva Leppard
Story felt like it was setting up a much longer story, only to suddenly end. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either.
Waste Not by Cassandra Housell
I hated it. It's mostly a robot complaining about humans and how wasteful they are.
The Talbotville Centaur by Tim Borella
First two stories were clearly Sci-fi and in the future, where this one is set in (what I assume is) the wild west of the past when the Internal combustion engine was new, so that was a bit jarring.
Wearing the Horse by Tamantha Smith
Guy gets a cybernetic horse body to replace his legs. It was an interesting story, though I still wonder why they wouldn't make the mermaid lady water proof...
Nunki's Arrows by Nikky Lee
The only story in this that I have actually liked. But I like mythology and that's basically what this was.
The Highway by Geogia MacShane
I THINK this is poetry, but when I first read it I had no idea since there was no poetry before this point and it was 7 pages long. I literally felt like I was having a stroke while reading it since there is no context for anything.
Chaos by B.A. Nielsen
This was literally 1 page long. But at least is was related to mythology and not a facepalming confusing mess like the last story.
Arrow’s Flight by Aveline Perez de Vera
So far this is the worst story out of them all, so much that I gave up half way because I just couldn't any more. Reading about random wars and random people dying is not my idea of fun.
Lead a Horse to Water by Brianna Bullen
Enjoyable little mystery with centaurs.
This is the Dawn (Part XIII) by Helena McAuley
More mythology related stuff and I guess the continuation to other stories from the rest of the series? I have only read this book so I don't know. It was still an entertaining read regardless of missing the previous parts.
Final thoughts:
The book started off really rough for me, it felt very unrelated to the theme of Sagittarius at first and only a couple stories were directly related to the theme. I think my favorite story out of the bunch was Nunki's Arrows and my least favorite is a tie between Arrow’s Flight and The Highway. (both terrible in their own way) The only thing preventing me from giving this one star instead of 2 is the last two stories were entertaining enough and not depressing or confusing like Arrow’s Flight and The Highway. Overall I only kind of regret reading this book. Would I read it again? No, absolutely not.
Tracy, Destroyer of Worlds by Eva Leppard
Story felt like it was setting up a much longer story, only to suddenly end. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either.
Waste Not by Cassandra Housell
I hated it. It's mostly a robot complaining about humans and how wasteful they are.
The Talbotville Centaur by Tim Borella
First two stories were clearly Sci-fi and in the future, where this one is set in (what I assume is) the wild west of the past when the Internal combustion engine was new, so that was a bit jarring.
Wearing the Horse by Tamantha Smith
Guy gets a cybernetic horse body to replace his legs. It was an interesting story, though I still wonder why they wouldn't make the mermaid lady water proof...
Nunki's Arrows by Nikky Lee
The only story in this that I have actually liked. But I like mythology and that's basically what this was.
The Highway by Geogia MacShane
I THINK this is poetry, but when I first read it I had no idea since there was no poetry before this point and it was 7 pages long. I literally felt like I was having a stroke while reading it since there is no context for anything.
Chaos by B.A. Nielsen
This was literally 1 page long. But at least is was related to mythology and not a facepalming confusing mess like the last story.
Arrow’s Flight by Aveline Perez de Vera
So far this is the worst story out of them all, so much that I gave up half way because I just couldn't any more. Reading about random wars and random people dying is not my idea of fun.
Lead a Horse to Water by Brianna Bullen
Enjoyable little mystery with centaurs.
This is the Dawn (Part XIII) by Helena McAuley
More mythology related stuff and I guess the continuation to other stories from the rest of the series? I have only read this book so I don't know. It was still an entertaining read regardless of missing the previous parts.
Final thoughts:
The book started off really rough for me, it felt very unrelated to the theme of Sagittarius at first and only a couple stories were directly related to the theme. I think my favorite story out of the bunch was Nunki's Arrows and my least favorite is a tie between Arrow’s Flight and The Highway. (both terrible in their own way) The only thing preventing me from giving this one star instead of 2 is the last two stories were entertaining enough and not depressing or confusing like Arrow’s Flight and The Highway. Overall I only kind of regret reading this book. Would I read it again? No, absolutely not.
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