A review by writegeist
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

4.0

I'm not sure how to respond to this one. I have thoroughly enjoyed de Lint's novels (The Little Country and The Mystery of Grace). This collection does include some very wonderful pieces, but I get the impression they are character sketches, ways of fleshing out people (and they really are people in my mind; complex and fascinating) who will later appear in a novel. The linchpin is Jilly Coppercorn who pops up in many of these stories. de Lint has a whole novel devoted to her (The Onion Girl) which I will be getting a hold of... someday... In addition, de Lint has a very apparent theme running through the stories. It's not hard to suss out, so I'll let you do the work for that :) It's a nice way of getting into de Lint's world, one that overlaps the world of magic for those willing to believe and see.