I suspect I would have enjoyed this more if I'd been fresher off the novels; I hadn't realised how long it's been since I read those, or how many details I'd forgotten that the stories assume I'll know. A lot of the stories I kinda liked but felt they could have been fleshed out a bit more. My favourite was the novelette that takes up the last quarter of the book, which has room to breathe and tipped the book from "I guess it's okay" to "I'm glad I read this". But I still wouldn't recommend it for anyone who hasn't read the novels first.