Customer Reviews

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIII

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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Love the stories, even love the author's bios. The entire series is great. I guess I've had my head in the sand, because in the bios I learned Deborah Ross was chosen to continue the Darkover series, so I'll be ordering more books from Amazon today!

This is a great anthology/series. I definitely recommend it for women who are tired of seeing buff, hunky he-men having all the fun when it comes to having adventures, killing the monster in question, and defeating the villain of the plot.

Well done tales of wielders of swords and magics. Marion Zimmer Bradley must be smiling down on all of us, writers and readers alike. Suspect MZB is laughing aloud as each of us discover another suspense solved with a unique twist. Her top quality anthologies continue in #23 to be well worth our time and complete attention. Thank You, Elisabeth Waters for a great job well done! I can barely wait for #24 in paperback and large print options too. Think I'll hunt up more of #1 through 22 for rereads while I am forced to impatiently wait for #24's release.

This is a good anthology, worthy of the MZB name. I liked it better than XXII (which I consider the weakest of the series). I was particularly pleased with a new story of one of my favorite alternate worlds and the adventures of the friends and family and long-suffering wife of Stephen, the perpetual student at a magical university. There were some funny stories too including another about Cluny the squirrel-mage and her hapless human familiar Crocker. I'm always game for a funny story, and this anthology delivers Marion's trademark preference for a funny short-short story at the end.

I don't rank the anthology as a 5-star because I hate the larger book size that the new publisher uses. I probably should not hate it because it allows for larger type-face and my eyes aren't as young as they used to be. However, the book proper is an awkward size for handling and reading, it doesn't fit on a normal paperback shelf, and it costs significantly more to purchase.