This is a short collection of quirky fantasy stories by an author new to me. Some are modern and almost cross into science fiction. Others are more like their own fairy tales. The right reader is going to love these, and I can't help but wonder what it'll be like when the author is ready to tackle a full-length book.

Even That Wildest Hope is a collection of short stories with storyline, worlds and characters that could easily be part of our world but skewed and chaotic in many ways. Many of the novels here are dark, showing the sides of characters that aren't easy to read, about longing for destruction, love as something that can be destructive and sad, greedy and dangerous. It was fascinating and a bit unsettling at times. Overall, there wasn't one story I didn't enjoy.