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A review by lauraanne9
1001 Dark Nights: Bundle Nine by Lili Valente, Christopher Rice, Carrie Ann Ryan, Heather Graham, Jennifer Probst, Melanie Harlow
4.0
***ARC Provided by InkSlingerPR***
The Dark Nights series, for those who are not familiar, are a take off on the Arabian Nights tales and the idea that, each night for 1001 nights, Scheherazade had to weave a tale that her husband will want to hear the end of and that he will want to know how it ends badly enough that he decides not to execute her.
So, they need to be compelling, they need to be page turners and they need to weave a little of the mysticism of this idea within the tales.
That said, I have no idea how to review this, or how to rate it. There were books/novellas in this I loved and those that I was less fond of, but as a collection, it had a strong flow and was an interesting way to introduce new authors or to give them a place to share a different than normal voice. As this is a collection, as it is books that are both to stand alone as well as to work together, I am rating the overall books as a group. I don't know of another way to do it without confusing myself...or you. But especially myself. And, then I would have to execute myself for not holding your attention.
Anyway, read the collection and read the series...it is an interesting way to weave differing stories into one collection while tying them together.
The Dark Nights series, for those who are not familiar, are a take off on the Arabian Nights tales and the idea that, each night for 1001 nights, Scheherazade had to weave a tale that her husband will want to hear the end of and that he will want to know how it ends badly enough that he decides not to execute her.
So, they need to be compelling, they need to be page turners and they need to weave a little of the mysticism of this idea within the tales.
That said, I have no idea how to review this, or how to rate it. There were books/novellas in this I loved and those that I was less fond of, but as a collection, it had a strong flow and was an interesting way to introduce new authors or to give them a place to share a different than normal voice. As this is a collection, as it is books that are both to stand alone as well as to work together, I am rating the overall books as a group. I don't know of another way to do it without confusing myself...or you. But especially myself. And, then I would have to execute myself for not holding your attention.
Anyway, read the collection and read the series...it is an interesting way to weave differing stories into one collection while tying them together.