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A review by poisonenvy
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Will Naomi Novik ever write something that I don't love? Probably not. I've not rated each individual story since I loved pretty much all of them. This is an absolutely solid anthology of short fiction from one of my top two favourite authors.
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake A lot of fun. I can read Naomi Novik's Regency AUs all day and never get bored. I loved this a lot; would absolutely read more with these characters.
After Hours This is the Scholomance short story, and man, what a great story. It takes place after the events of the Scholomance, so we can see how things are going after all of that, and it's everything I'd hoped it would be. Ngl, I totally teared up at one point.
Vici I didn't read that in this collection, just because I've very recently read this story in another collection. This is a short story set in the Temeraire universe, and tells the story of the first dragon to ever be "tamed". By Marc Anthony. It really is a great story and I loved it a lot.
Buried Deep This retells the Greek Myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur, and it is also very, very excellent. Look, this is going to be a lot of my reviews, okay? Partly because I didn't review them each after reading them so they're not fresh, but also because they were.
Spinning Silver How the novel Spinning Silver might have been. This is a fun little AU of her own novel, told in like, 50 pages.
Commonplaces A short little Sherlock Holmes fic that was a lot of fun.
Seven I loved this. A story about what to sacrifice for your art, and what art is worth without life.
Blessings lmao, this was pretty silly. What if a baby is given just too many blessings from her fairy godparents? Very cute.
Lord Dunsany's Teapot Yet another story that kind of made me tear up a little. Wow. What a story.
Seven Years from Home Not going to lie, this one lost me a bit and it was a struggle to get through to the end.
Dragons & Decorum I read this story in Golden Age and Other Stories, but it's been a while and I have just recently finally read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and so I decided to read it again. Let me tell you, with the P&P under my belt, this was so much more enjoyable than the first time around. Elizabeth Bennett gets a dragon during the Napoleonic Wars, so what happens when she catches the eye of Mr. Darcy?
Castle Coeurlieu Another fun one that I enjoyed. Much tension. A great ending.
The Long Way Round This is the short story that introduces us all to Naomi Novik's upcoming series, Folly, and boy let me tell you I'm so freaking excited.
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake A lot of fun. I can read Naomi Novik's Regency AUs all day and never get bored. I loved this a lot; would absolutely read more with these characters.
After Hours This is the Scholomance short story, and man, what a great story. It takes place after the events of the Scholomance, so we can see how things are going after all of that, and it's everything I'd hoped it would be. Ngl, I totally teared up at one point.
Vici I didn't read that in this collection, just because I've very recently read this story in another collection. This is a short story set in the Temeraire universe, and tells the story of the first dragon to ever be "tamed". By Marc Anthony. It really is a great story and I loved it a lot.
Buried Deep This retells the Greek Myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur, and it is also very, very excellent. Look, this is going to be a lot of my reviews, okay? Partly because I didn't review them each after reading them so they're not fresh, but also because they were.
Spinning Silver How the novel Spinning Silver might have been. This is a fun little AU of her own novel, told in like, 50 pages.
Commonplaces A short little Sherlock Holmes fic that was a lot of fun.
Seven I loved this. A story about what to sacrifice for your art, and what art is worth without life.
Blessings lmao, this was pretty silly. What if a baby is given just too many blessings from her fairy godparents? Very cute.
Lord Dunsany's Teapot Yet another story that kind of made me tear up a little. Wow. What a story.
Seven Years from Home Not going to lie, this one lost me a bit and it was a struggle to get through to the end.
Dragons & Decorum I read this story in Golden Age and Other Stories, but it's been a while and I have just recently finally read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and so I decided to read it again. Let me tell you, with the P&P under my belt, this was so much more enjoyable than the first time around. Elizabeth Bennett gets a dragon during the Napoleonic Wars, so what happens when she catches the eye of Mr. Darcy?
Castle Coeurlieu Another fun one that I enjoyed. Much tension. A great ending.
The Long Way Round This is the short story that introduces us all to Naomi Novik's upcoming series, Folly, and boy let me tell you I'm so freaking excited.