Short Story Thoughts
Feb. 17th, 2019 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaGodmother by T. Kingfisher
Interesting with a neat idea. I want to learn more about the princess who was forgotten and abandoned and created a bone dog and survived by her own strength which sounds so interesting. Does she become a villain? Plus too the godmothers who have to make choices about whom to help/save and this specific one haunted by making perhaps the wrong choice.
Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon
Oh, wow. I loved this. Great twist to the Pinocchio story. The whole concept of the wood carvings sometimes coming to life is great. I liked Sarah and her compassion and her determination. Jep and his story was so sad and like Sarah made me emotional, I even got teary-eyed several times. The marionette was great and how instinctually terrifying Sarah found it was conveyed really well and made the marionette creepier than it might have been. I liked the softness give to him during that last scene, the bit of humanity. My shipper brain kind of wants Sarah to meet up with the marionette and his horse at some later date (perhaps he looks for her) and them falling in love. I like to think that Jep ends up taking Sarah as his apprentice but honestly I think it's just as likely that Sarah stops by his place the next day to find him dead. No, I prefer the first version. I'd definitely read a sequel to this.
Sun Moon Dust by Ursula Vernon
Cute. I like Allpa's voice and how he really just wants to be a farmer, and how polite he was. I like that it ended Allpa/Moon because I wasn't expecting it.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
Super cute. I love these types of stories. The search engine AI gaining sentience and trying to figure out their purpose and their love of cute cat pictures was adorable. I liked how she tried to help people, her bafflement with humans and the slightly alien tinge to her thoughts. And I don't know why but I just automatically identified the AI as female when there was no evidence for it.
Interesting with a neat idea. I want to learn more about the princess who was forgotten and abandoned and created a bone dog and survived by her own strength which sounds so interesting. Does she become a villain? Plus too the godmothers who have to make choices about whom to help/save and this specific one haunted by making perhaps the wrong choice.
Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon
Oh, wow. I loved this. Great twist to the Pinocchio story. The whole concept of the wood carvings sometimes coming to life is great. I liked Sarah and her compassion and her determination. Jep and his story was so sad and like Sarah made me emotional, I even got teary-eyed several times. The marionette was great and how instinctually terrifying Sarah found it was conveyed really well and made the marionette creepier than it might have been. I liked the softness give to him during that last scene, the bit of humanity. My shipper brain kind of wants Sarah to meet up with the marionette and his horse at some later date (perhaps he looks for her) and them falling in love. I like to think that Jep ends up taking Sarah as his apprentice but honestly I think it's just as likely that Sarah stops by his place the next day to find him dead. No, I prefer the first version. I'd definitely read a sequel to this.
Sun Moon Dust by Ursula Vernon
Cute. I like Allpa's voice and how he really just wants to be a farmer, and how polite he was. I like that it ended Allpa/Moon because I wasn't expecting it.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
Super cute. I love these types of stories. The search engine AI gaining sentience and trying to figure out their purpose and their love of cute cat pictures was adorable. I liked how she tried to help people, her bafflement with humans and the slightly alien tinge to her thoughts. And I don't know why but I just automatically identified the AI as female when there was no evidence for it.
