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Book Review of Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond

Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond
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From Kim Harrison's website www.kimharrison.net

This is a copy of the first Harrison compilation. This is the one with all the extra Hollows shorts and novellas that have been published up to now. In it, we see Ivy frame a man for murderthe same who goes on later to kill Kisten. We see Daryl and see how she and Ivy met. Theres Ceris abduction, and why blue butterflies figure into Als psyche. Why Ivy gave Mia her wish, and what Mia did with it is in there. How Pierce gave Rachel her first feeling of true independence is explained. And of course, Trent and Jenks rescuing Lucy. (Go Trent and Jenks!)

Then there are the new pieces, bits of thought that I played with as possible future series. If you want a peek into how the creative mind works . . . Well . . . here you go. Ive got three novellas and one short, all different worlds, all different magics, all hopefully different feels to them: Pet Shop Boys from a guys point of view about the perils of winter solstice parties; Spider Silk, a is-she-isnt-she kind of horror story; and Grace, whove Ive been talking about ever since Ive had a blogwhich is actually before they had a word for it. (Im thinking 2001?)

Its a fabulous collection of old and new, and Im very pleased to be able to do this.