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Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne JonesMy review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
If you don't want to read this entire book, start at the end with "Everard's Ride" and then work your way backwards through the stories. When you get to stories you don't like, stop, because they only diminish in quality the closer you get to the beginning of the book. I think some of the stories - even ones I didn't really like - could be worked into pretty good full-lenth novels. But here in their short story form, they just don't do much for me. Besides the novella "Everard's Ride," which I really liked, my favorite short stories were "Dragon Reserve, Home Eight," "Little Dot," and maybe as a distant third, "What the Cat Told Me." Based just on the short stories, I would give this a solid two stars, but "Everard's Ride" brings it up to three stars for me.
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