Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 1/2/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Another excellent Eve Dallas novella opens this quartet, then it goes downhill on a diamond run with Blayney's blathering, manages to steady itself on a gentle plain with Langan's interesting time-travel romance which stumbles on a hidden rock in the end and falters, then schusses uneasily into McComas's wizard story into a mogul run full of ups and downs, eventually smoothing out into a nice rounding arc in the end, tying the 4 stories together neatly in a way that just manages to redeem the collection.

Robb's talent is once again used as a vehicle to bring lesser authors to light, as can be expected, but how Blayney passed editors' scrutiny with the nauseatingly wretched piece she contributed is beyond me. She must have had connections. This is the first time I've been tempted to the sacrilege of ripping out pages in a book - that would definitely have improved this volume. Langan's time travel short started off interestingly enough but fell short at the finish, but at least her writing showed promise. With McComas's strange time traveling wizard I was skeptical at first, then she caugh my interest and the clever way she tied the 4 stories together in the end managed to hold the book together even though the base premise of using "Suite 606" was rather shaky.

Robb's story garners 4 stars from me, Blayney's 0 if I could rate it that, but let's say 1 for calculating purposes, and the other two 3 stars apiece, which brings the total collection to barely 3 stars (rounding up).

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