I liked this a lot better than the contemporary anthology, but not quite as much as the historical fiction anthology.

Honestly, it felt like a lot of these authors (from all three collections) weren't short story writers. Many of these stories felt like scenes taken out of novels rather than standalone stories, and it made me so much less invested in them. The structure is different and they can't be written the same as a novel.

I don't think any of these stories were standouts to me, but most of them were pretty interesting. I kind of wish I'd maybe just read this one instead of all three (this was the one that made me want to read the series), but I committed and here were are. They were fine. Some decently good, but mostly fine and nothing really memorable.