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I'm not obsessed, I'm just intensely focued.

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Home Improvement: Undead Edition
Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Arthur Conan Doyle
Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 - Delia Sherman, Esther M. Friesner, Richard Parks, Sandra McDonald, Vera Nazarian, Sarah Monette, M. Rickert, Eugie Foster, Paula Guran, Claudia O'Keefe, Sarah Prineas, Sonya Taaffe, Amanda Downum, David Sakmyster, Angela Boord, Haddayr Copley-Woods There's very little romance in these stories, and very little love. In fact, none of the stories felt romantic to me. The anthology has the usual mix of forgettable stories and stories that offer something interesting.

My favorite story in the anthology is definitely The Moment of Joy Before by Claudia O'Keefe, but I'm a sucker for apocalyptic stories. This particular story involves a deadly plague.

To the extent there's any love or romance at all, all but one of the stories focuses on a heterosexual relationship. The final story, Le Fee Verte, has both a heterosexual and lesbian relationship. I enjoyed that story as well, which is set in Napoleonic France.

Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge is also more historical fantasy than anything else. This story takes place before the rise of the samurai in Japan.

There are a handful of standout stories in this anthology, but there are more that seem flat or fail in other ways.