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Waifs and Strays Charles De Lint Books Reviews

I love fantasy, and I was expecting the usual. This is not the usual! I don't really like reading short stories, either, but these read like they really happened, and were reported yesterday in the newspapers. Quite different, really! Some of the stories I yearned to be full-blown novels, especially "Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood". When's the last time someone brought Merlin back to you? I miss him! Some, like "The Graceless Child", were haunting and eerie. The vampire sisters in "Sisters" was thought provoking!
Altogether, and interesting read.
Wonderfully enjoyable entertainment, and extremely well-written, this book's short stories delve into a world each of their own. Magic, deception, and good versus evil all collide to form a well blended book of short stories. Each story has its own individuality and strength, with its own set of unique characters.
Two sample stories
---- The first story is called Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood. It is about a girl who, when she has terrible nightmares, goes into her uncle's garden (whom she lives with) and upon dropping off to sleep on the garden's bench under a large tree, encounters a tree boy. He makes the dreams go away. Soon after the dreams ended, she stopped going to the garden at night. And so, years later when she is looking out of her bedroom window, sees the tree, and decides that night to go and search for the tree boy. A story of trust of memories.
---- The second story is about two sisters. Appoline and Cassandra. This story is written in chapters, alternating with each sisters point of view. Appoline is tweleve, and has a congentital birth defect. One leg is shorter then the other. She doesn't care so much about that, she really wants to find out what her sister is hiding from her.
Her sister, Cassandra is sixteen or seventeen, and has...a secret. She is a vampire. And plans to turn her sister, whom she has watched suffer too long, on HER sixteenth birthday.
Also a story of trust and magic.

Great book. Hope this review helped you learn more about the book.
Enjoy!
I particilarly like de Lint's Newford stories and novels but this very special collection of stories with varied settings is an excellent choice for adolescents, their teachers, libraries and schools. This wonderful short story anthology is de Lint's short fiction with teen protagonists. There's two Maisie Flood stories that take place in Newford; she's just off the street herself, but lives with an adult developmentally disabled man Tommy and a great number of castoff dogs ("Waifs and Strays" and "But for the Grace Go I"). "Stick" takes place in Bordertown. The eponymous martial arts expert defends a halfling from some Bloods, the band Horn Dance to defend him in turn, with music. "There's No Such Thing" and "Sisters" are charming, funny and a little sad teenage vampire stories set around Ottawa.
This was my first real brush with Charles de Lint's work and I have to say, I'm hooked. He has this way of telling a story that really immerses you in whatever he has to tell and making you really want to care about what happens next.

There are several great stories in here, although I'll admit that I liked some more than others. I absolutely loved the one about a wish with its own identity and personality. It was really well written and helps show exactly why some of the things would unfold the way they did. Others, such as the stories about vampirism and sisterhood, give off a sense of melancholy and a little bit of hope.

Waifs and Strays had been listed in the teen section of my local used bookstore, but I'd really say that any age can read these stories and identify with them. Maybe as adults you might be further away from your teen years than you'd like, but de Lint has a way of making these characters so easily related to that just about anyone can sink into them.

I'd absolutely recommend this collection to any fan of urban fantasy. There's a good reason that this book won an award and why de Lint is so well loved. Sure, there will always be people who won't like a collection or author for one reason or another, but this is one of those collections that will be a fairly safe bet for most readers.
Charles DeLint is probably one of the best modern day writers and this book is wonderful. Charles DeLint never disappoints.
I am a huge fan of Charles de Lint and am trying to build my collection of his writing.
I received this novel on time and in great condition.
I'm only halfway through the book, but am loving it so far!
Charles DeLint is my favorite author and I've read almost everything I have found that he has written. I was excited with 'Waifs and Strays' since all but 3 of the included stories were new to me. I really enjoyed the introduction to each story as he explains when each was written and for which publication; and I was especially impressed with his introduction to "May This Be Your Last Sorrow". You gotta read this, especially if you are a fan of DeLint's.
You can rely on De Lint for insightful examination of how people feel and think, presented in a beautifully written, engaging, entertaining, fanciful tale.