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A review by minervacerridwen
Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove by M. Lopes da Silva, Robert Perez, Drew Michaels, Stewart C. Baker, Lazolia Buzuzi, Preeti C. Sharma, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Maria E. Andreu, F.E. Norley, Mark Frost, Rachel Leidenfrost, Tom Jolly, C. Flynt, Tamzin Mitchell, Demi Elder, Rita Beth Ebert, T.J. Lockwood, Minerva Cerridwen, Irene Punti, Michael Noble, George Nikolopoulos, Laura Johnson, Karen Giery, Janna Layton, Marriah Allen Pina, Elizabeth Shaffer, B.C. Kalis, Holly Schofield, Mike Casto, Michael W. Cho, Joshua Amodeo, Dawn Vogel, J.S. Bailey, Christine Hanolsy, Jakob Drud, Marsalis, Ellen Meny, Kenn Pitawanakwat, Mike Morgan, Robert Bagnall, Kai Hudson, Bo Balder, E.D.E. Bell, Catrine Kyster Giery, Jannae’ Sifontes, John Lowell, Karen Black, L.S. Reinholt, Ruth Olson, Chelsea Cambeis, Chloe Lerit, Jasre' Ellis, Robert Dawson, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Margery Bayne, Indira Ronae Lorick, Ryanne Glenn, Andrew K. Hoe, Kella Campbell, Joy Givens
5.0
I co-wrote one of the 59 stories in this anthology, but I would have loved Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove either way.
There wasn't a single story in this that I didn't like to some extent, and there were many that I really loved. There were laughs, magic, melancholy, suspense. The stories are diverse in every sense of the word: genre, characters, and background of the authors. There was an experience unlike anything I'd read before in "Beings", a story translated from a native language with a very different structure than what I'm used to. So among all those stories it also offers something new for many readers.
What makes this anthology even more special is that with 61 different authors, the book still feels coherent. Hotel Stormcove becomes a very particular place that, when you can't continue reading for a long while because life is being busy, you really find yourself longing to return to. Even for the reader, it becomes the place of refuge it is described to be in the stories.
There wasn't a single story in this that I didn't like to some extent, and there were many that I really loved. There were laughs, magic, melancholy, suspense. The stories are diverse in every sense of the word: genre, characters, and background of the authors. There was an experience unlike anything I'd read before in "Beings", a story translated from a native language with a very different structure than what I'm used to. So among all those stories it also offers something new for many readers.
What makes this anthology even more special is that with 61 different authors, the book still feels coherent. Hotel Stormcove becomes a very particular place that, when you can't continue reading for a long while because life is being busy, you really find yourself longing to return to. Even for the reader, it becomes the place of refuge it is described to be in the stories.