
This collection does have some overlap with her other short story collections (my review of another is here – I’ve read another beyond this), but there is different work in here, so it’s worth getting.
I really like the author’s voice – these are fairy tales retellings, or variations, or stories set in a fairy like world, but they also have a very modern perspective. I really like the stories featuring Mother Night – they fit very much into my pagan adjacent world view (lapsed Catholic with a very broad spiritual world view – faith is complicated…).
These stories are often organized around a theme (variations on the Snow Queen, for example), and you get longer narrative works, and some poems. It’s a really nice way to wend through the narrative. I took a while to get through this book – I kept it as a palate cleanser between other books.