{"id":19975,"date":"2013-04-10T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2013-04-04T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T08:06:23","slug":"read-and-enjoyed-prickle-moon-a-short-story-collection-by-juliet-marillier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/read-and-enjoyed-prickle-moon-a-short-story-collection-by-juliet-marillier\/","title":{"rendered":"Read and Enjoyed: “Prickle Moon” — A Short Story Collection by Juliet Marillier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently, under Just Arrived, I posted on receiving an Advanced Reading Copy of Juliet Marillier’s<\/a> first short story collection, Prickle Moon<\/strong> — due out this month from Ticonderoga Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also talked about how I enjoyed one of the stories in the collection, Juggling Silver<\/em>, when it came out in Tales for Canterbury<\/strong> in 2011, and re-quoted the excerpt I had used for the “A Peek Inside Tales For Canterbury”<\/a> post series. You can read that Juggling Silver<\/em> excerpt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I also noted in the Just Arrived post, Prickle Moon<\/strong> contains 14 short stories, some previously published like Juggling Silver<\/em>, but others—like the eponymous Prickle Moon<\/em> and the final tale, By Bone-Light<\/em>—written specifically for this collection. The collection also includes two non-genre stories, Letters from Robert<\/em> and Jack’s Day<\/em>, as well as a novelette, ‘Twixt Twilight and Water<\/em>, that is set in the world of Juliet Marillier’s “Sevenwaters”<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n

So what did I think? Well, I loved it, dear readers, especially all the genre stories—of which I think By Bone-Light<\/em> might just be my favourite, not least for its fresh look at the fairytale character of Baba Yaga. I also very much enjoyed Prickle Moon<\/em>, liking the way it wove considerations of class into Fantasy material, and found Twixt Twilight and Water<\/em> “just right.”<\/p>\n

As some of you may know, generally I am not a big short story reader, but I did find myself wanting to read the next one. These are magical, diverse, hopeful tales and I have to say, I was very impressed by Ms Marillier’s skill as a short storyteller: she never pitches her arc too high to deliver within the short story confines, or leaves the reader with that dissatisfied feeling that somehow part of the story is missing.<\/p>\n

If you have enjoyed Juliet Marillier’s novels, and enjoy mainly Fantasy speculative fiction with a strongly Celtic but also romantic flavour, I am “pretty sure” that you will enjoy Prickle Moon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, under Just Arrived, I posted on receiving an Advanced Reading Copy of Juliet Marillier’s first short story collection, Prickle Moon — due out this month from Ticonderoga Press. I also talked about how I enjoyed one of the stories in the collection, Juggling Silver, when it came out in Tales for Canterbury in 2011, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19983,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}