{"id":5298,"date":"2015-06-22T20:31:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2021-05-30T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:51:56","slug":"fiction-river-hex-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5298","title":{"rendered":"Fiction River: Hex in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiction River: Hex in the City<\/a><\/em> (2013) edited by Kerrie L. Hughes<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hex-in-the-City\"<\/a>\u201cKing of the Kingless\u201d by Jay Lake
\n\u201cSpeechless in Seattle\u201d by Lisa Sliverthorne
\n\u201cThy Neighbor\u201d by Nancy Holder
\n\u201cSomebody Else\u2019s Problem\u201d by Annie Bellet
\n\u201cA Thing Immortal as Itself\u201d by Lee Allred
\n\u201cGeriatric Magic\u201d by Stephanie Writt
\n\u201cRed as Snow\u201d by Seanan McGuire
\n\u201cMusic\u2019s Price\u201d by Anthea Sharp
\n\u201cThe Sound of My Own Voice\u201d by Dayle A. Dermatis
\n\u201cThe 13th Floor Problem\u201d by Dean Wesley Smith
\n\u201cDead Men Walking\u201d by Annie Reed
\n\u201cOne Good Deed\u201d by Jeanne C. Stein
\n\u201cFox and Hound\u201d by Leah Cutter
\n\u201cThe Scottish Play\u201d by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<\/p>\n

This is another anthology I realized I wasn’t ever going to read all the stories in, so here is a review of the stories I did read. <\/p>\n

\u201cRed As Snow\u201d by Seanan McGuire<\/a><\/p>\n

This story is set in her InCryptid world, and features two characters from the first books, Istas and Ryan.<\/p>\n

I was not the firstborn female of my litter, but the dead are not the family of the living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like Istas because she is so very foreign and strange–much like one would expect a Waheela would be. Her thoughts are not ours, and although she likes humanity, she is not human.<\/p>\n

\u201cFox and Hound\u201d by Leah Cutter<\/a><\/p>\n

Ages and ages ago I read Leah Cutter’s book Paper Mage<\/em> and loved it. Then, for some reason, never ended up buying anything else by her (probably because it wasn’t anything I could find locally).<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve read this, I really don’t know why I haven’t sought out more books by her.<\/p>\n

Gou is a rickshaw driver in Hong Kong, and when he picks up a very unusual customer, he doesn’t accept things as they are.
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong> (based only upon the two stories I read)<\/p>\n

Published by WMG Publishing, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiction River: Hex in the City (2013) edited by Kerrie L. Hughes \u201cKing of the Kingless\u201d by Jay Lake \u201cSpeechless in Seattle\u201d by Lisa Sliverthorne \u201cThy Neighbor\u201d by Nancy Holder \u201cSomebody Else\u2019s Problem\u201d by Annie Bellet \u201cA Thing Immortal as Itself\u201d by Lee Allred \u201cGeriatric Magic\u201d by Stephanie Writt \u201cRed as Snow\u201d by Seanan McGuire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,18,2,48,8,16],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-anthology","category-fantasy","category-female","category-mystery","category-supernatural","tag-seanan-mcguire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3474,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3474","url_meta":{"origin":5298,"position":0},"title":"Discount Armageddon","author":"Michelle","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Discount Armageddon: An InCryptid Novel (2012) Seanan McGuire Verity Price is a cryptozoologist. 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