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    He Said, Sidhe Said
    He Said, Sidhe Said
    He Said, Sidhe Said
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    He Said, Sidhe Said

    By Tanya Huff

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    In these seven contemporary fantasies from Tanya Huff, we see a dog's eye view of loyalty and a cat's eye view of sea serpents. We learn that some Brownies could use a shave – although cookies will still be sold – and that there are at least two sides to every relationship, no matter how accidental and/or mythical that relationship is. We're also reminded that however worthwhile it may be to die with purpose, it's better to live well. Huff's ability to leaven heartache with humour – and vise versa – gives this collection of previously published stories an unexpected emotional variety.

    A December release, He Said, Sidhe Said also includes the seasonally appropriate “I'll be Home for Christmas.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
    Release dateDec 13, 2013
    ISBN9781625670892
    He Said, Sidhe Said
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    Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario with her wife Fiona Patton, five cats, and an increasing number of fish. Her 32 novels and 83 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her BLOOD series was turned into the 22-episode Blood Ties and writing episode nine allowed her to finally use her degree in Radio & Television Arts. Many of her short stories are available as eCollections. She’s on Twitter at @TanyaHuff and Facebook as Tanya Huff. She has never used her Instagram account and isn’t sure why she has it.

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      As usual, Tanya Huff's stories collected in this ebook are fun; it's a solid mix of fun and a more serious story. The title story (a sort of retelling of Tam Lin) was probably my least favourite. Since it's a shortish collection (seven stories), I'll review each story separately, albeit briefly.'A Choice of Endings': I didn't remember the character of Mrs. Ruth very well -- I read Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light quite a while ago -- but I enjoyed the story nonetheless. It's always interesting when older women are the heroines of a story, you really don't see it enough, and it was good to get into Mrs. Ruth's head. And her antics are quite entertaining: she's deadly with bottles of Tabasco sauce...'Finding Marcus': One of Tanya Huff's few first person stories, apparently, and narrated from the point of view of a dog -- and she's a cat person. I think she got the essential traits of a dog pretty well: that literally dogged loyalty and persistence which I think is one of the most lovely traits of a good dog. (I'm biased. My nan's dog, in my childhood, was very dogged and loyal, and heaved his arthritis, tubby body up a step and along the hall to check on me while I curled up on my own in the front room, reading.) The story was pretty simple, but it worked well, even for being something Tanya Huff doesn't do much.'He Said, Sidhe Said': As I said, my least favourite of the collection. I just didn't find it very remarkable. The various parallels to Tam Lin are clever, but it wasn't absorbing for me.'I'll Be Home For Christmas': I have a fairly 'meh' reaction to this one, too, for all that its seasonal. Or perhaps because it's seasonal? I'm not good with seasonal. There's only one Christmas-themed album I like, in music (Thea Gilmore's Strange Communion), so maybe I'm the same about stories. It just didn't grab me, anyway.'Tuesday Evenings, Six Thirty to Seven': I liked this one. Again an older female heroine, and a very non-conventional Brownie troop. I thought that was kind of clever, and I enjoyed the Brown Owl's attempts to adapt to them and to do her best by them. It was filled with a kind of tenderness toward the whole Brownie movement, too, which I can understand -- I never was a Brownie, but I so wanted to be.'Under Summons': I haven't read Summon the Keeper yet, though I have it, but this story made perfect sense even without it. Loved the pissy cat and the helpful fish. It makes me want to hurry up and read the original series.'Word of Honour': I'm not sure about the quality of the history detail around the events in this story, and the portrayal of the Templars, etc (my knowledge about Templars, such as it is, comes mostly from Assassin's Creed). I didn't find the story as emotional as Tanya Huff mentions she does in her introduction, but it is an enjoyable story and there are a couple of moments in it that did really get to me.

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