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A review by angielisle
The Eclective: The Celtic Collection by Alan Nayes, Shéa MacLeod, Shéa MacLeod, The Eclective, Heather Marie Adkins, Jack Wallen, Alan Nayes, P.J. Jones, M. Edward McNally, M. Edward McNally
3.0
Irish Celts
This is the second collection I've read by The Eclective - the first was more horror-centric where this collection is romanticized (I prefer horror). I averaged my ratings for each story for the collection's rating: 3-stars.
I read this on the eve of my father's open-heart surgery so I might be emotionally biased toward the very last tale in the collection - Five Shamrocks, by Alan Nayes - which made me teary. It's my favorite story in the collection.
There are a couple editing errors scattered through the collection. One story - The Red Veil of Vengeance by Jack Wallen - failed to hook me because of a chronology-slash-incorrect word usage: the year given is 406AD and the main character (Kurvail) is a "descendant" of Vlad Tsepes, who was born 1431 so descendant was the wrong word choice (ancestor or predecessor would fit better). The chronology-incorrect use of a word kept me from getting sucked into the story - which sucks because this story cleverly plays off a legendary figure and I wish that one detail hadn't nagged me through the tale.
I've downloaded a couple more free collections by The Eclective to peruse so obviously I feel that this group warrants reading.
This is the second collection I've read by The Eclective - the first was more horror-centric where this collection is romanticized (I prefer horror). I averaged my ratings for each story for the collection's rating: 3-stars.
I read this on the eve of my father's open-heart surgery so I might be emotionally biased toward the very last tale in the collection - Five Shamrocks, by Alan Nayes - which made me teary. It's my favorite story in the collection.
There are a couple editing errors scattered through the collection. One story - The Red Veil of Vengeance by Jack Wallen - failed to hook me because of a chronology-slash-incorrect word usage: the year given is 406AD and the main character (Kurvail) is a "descendant" of Vlad Tsepes, who was born 1431 so descendant was the wrong word choice (ancestor or predecessor would fit better). The chronology-incorrect use of a word kept me from getting sucked into the story - which sucks because this story cleverly plays off a legendary figure and I wish that one detail hadn't nagged me through the tale.
I've downloaded a couple more free collections by The Eclective to peruse so obviously I feel that this group warrants reading.