Unfettered

The list of contributors should give a clear indication on the quality of this collection. There are some big and important names in the fantasy genre here. The Unfettered collection also serves a noble cause as well! Shawn Speakman, the proprietor of Grim Oak Press, organised this collection as a way to raise money to help fight his cancer and the success of this has been such that he has been able to set up a fund to help other authors.

The stories here are all by authors at the top of their craft. Even the weaker ones are interesting enough - usually in a collection there are some which don't work with me and whilst some are weaker there are no stories in here that were not worth reading. A brilliant fantasy short story collection!

Listened to the audiobook as part of the Unfettered anthology. Maybe it would have been interesting if I had already read the series.

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Listened to the audiobook as part of the Unfettered anthology. I didn't not like it.

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Listened to the audiobook as part of the Unfettered anthology. Well written. I'll probably check out the series.

More than 50% of the stories were worth reading, but there were a few duds among them. I also believe that I should probably avoid collections of short stories in the future—I prefer the depth that comes from an entire novel or series.