Oddest of All
Bruce Coville
Harcourt
Fiction, YA Fantasy/Anthology
*** (Okay)
DESCRIPTION: Bruce Coville, prolific author and editor, compiles nine of his original short stories in this anthology.
REVIEW: Usually, I find Coville a fairly safe bet when it comes to anthologies. His previous collections (Oddly Enough and Odder than Ever) had a nice range of tales, from silly to scary to downright bizarre. Comparatively, this collection feels flat. The stories all read fairly fast, but only a handful linger in the memory for any length of time. More than one feels like an unfinished start to a book that never happened. Though not a terrible anthology by any means, I suppose I just expected a little more from Coville.
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