Ellen Klages’ recommended WICKED WONDERS dazzles
A trio of fresh reviews for Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS.
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MIRABILE DICTU enjoys their first Ellen Klages experience.
In Ellen Klages’ dazzling new collection of short stories, WICKED WONDERS, she crafts one perfect sentence after another.
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Klages’ perceptive stories cross genre. Are they miniature fantasies? Magic realism? Retold fairy tales? A little bit of all three, plus some smart homages to Ray Bradbury.
Klages is an evocative chronicler of childhood.
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I loved these stories. I am so glad to have discovered this writer.
A. C. Wise on her eponymous site includes the collection among Women to Read: Where to Start: June 2017.
Last (for now), but not least, my recommended starting place for Ellen Klages’ work is Singing on a Star, a World Fantasy Award finalist originally appearing in Firebird Soaring, and included in her new collection, WICKED WONDERS. In fact, it’s tempting to recommend the whole collection as a starting point, since many themes echo across the stories – childhood, friendship, loss, and magic.
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THE BOOK THAT praises the volume.
Ellen Klages writes stories that I find myself wishing I had come up with. She has a wild imagination and was able to pull me along with her.
Overall, I loved the way that they would draw me in and at the end leave me thinking about them long after I had moved on to another book. My favorite story was Singing on a Star. I loved the Alice in Wonderland feel of it and the creepy vibe that left me with goosebumps at the end.
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For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.
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