Reviews for Kindred spirits

The average rating for Kindred spirits based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-16 00:00:00 Frank Riley I always have mixed feelings about Card's short fiction, and that continued with this book. Several of the stories were great; I especially liked the Hatrack River ones. There were some others, such as "Angles," that I would like to see developed into novels. Some of them felt a little unfinished. All in all, though, it was an enjoyable read, and the great thing about it being a book of short fiction was that I didn't stay up all night reading it, the way I usually do when I get one of his books. The stories were still page-turners (I was never bored), but I was able to force myself to stop when I finished a story or two, instead of having to read the whole thing from beginning to end. There were definitely several 5-star stories, a couple that were 3-star, and maybe even one or two that I personally found 2-star stories, but overall I would put most of the stories in the 4-star range; hence the rating.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-28 00:00:00 Emmanuel Chen Disappointing. I read Maps in a Mirror years ago and remember the stories to be consistently above average and as enjoyable as his novels were at the time. This book, not so much. Angles is wonderful, but several of the others seemed to be unfinished or otherwise didn't go anywhere. Too bad.