A review by mage_cat
Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection by Charles de Lint

3.0

I like urban fantasy. I like short story collections. I like things that bring the feeling of the mythic into the modern world. I should love this book, but for some reason, I only like it well enough. Maybe it's a product of its era. There's something about most fantasy written in the early 90s that never quite lets me get pulled in the way I want stories to. There are plenty of quality components to these stories, but for me, they never cohered into more than the sum of their parts.