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To Weave a Web of Magic

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Patricia McKillip. Artist Harry Waterman feels like a failure because he lacks a muse to motivate him. That changes when Medusa calls him from a painting he drew. She plans to inspire him by pointing to a model Jo who vanished.

Lynn Kurland. Using a cloaking spell, part Elfin Maher flees from her father because she refuses to wed her sire's choice of a spouse for her. Her father Robert wants to forge an alliance with Hagarth through his daughter. She refuses and seeks the help of King Harold to learn how to use a book of spells she possesses. However, her father insists she is a valuable asset to further his ambitions.

Sharon Shinn. In Samaria, Jesse the fallen angel desires the young Manadavvi woman who returns his love. However, her mother insists her family is too important to have her marry a loser insisting the daughter will wed into a wealthy family or the next Archangel.

Claire Delacroix. An elderly woman overhears two gossips discuss Melusine, a demon who chose to live in the mortal world to cast her evil influence on Raymond who she married and had ten children with him. The old woman informs the two women that Melusine came to this world out of love for Raymond. Is she a malevolent devil or a female in love?

All four well-written romantic fantasies contain solid lead characters though in a couple of the tales the antagonist pales in comparison. Sub-genre fans will appreciate the quartet as all fun to read.

Harriet Klausner

Lynn Kurland and Sharon Shinn wrote beautiful stories -- and good reading. I've read all of Kurland's other books and this one was nice, too. I've never read Shinn, but I am going to start. I love her angel world.

The other stories were a disappointment. The last one had a sad ending -- nobody was happy. The romance soured and they all lived horribly ever after. Byuk! The first story was almost a romance. It was more a story of falling out of infatuation than falling in love.

Read this for Kurland and Shinn, but skip the other two stories.

These four adult fairy tales are wonderful. Full of fun and fantasy. These are not erotic fairy tales, but wonderful journeys into the realms of myths, magic, and monsters. Sometimes the monsters are human.

This was an exquisite experience. Each tale is very different, but all four are good. As with any good fairy tale the is a lesson to be learned in each.

In one we have a painter who can't see what is really before his eyes.

In two (my favorite) we have a delightful Lynn Kurland story, that reminds us sometimes our loved ones are not who we think they are.

In three we find a world where angels are real and have a day to day relationship with man.

In four one of the fey finds that being human is more than the flesh we wear.

This book was like a breath of fresh air. Enjoy.