Shadows and Sorcery by Sean Hill


Shadows and Sorcery is a little bit different from other stories, even short stories, I've reviewed so this review will be a little bit different as well. 
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Hill's Substack contains seven hundred (an achievement recently realized) fantasy short stories, that are some of the best stories I have ever read. I have read forty I believe of this massive archive already, I will probably never finish reading this archive, which is one of the many reasons Hill's work is special. Another is that I have yet to hit a paywall, and again, 700 stories so I may just not be there yet and even if I did come across one I would happily and without a moments hesitation, pay to continue to have access to these stories. Hell, if these were published in a series of books I would be the first to preorder them. 

One of the main and most important reasons these stories are so special though is simply that Sean Hill is an exceptional writer. I said I was going to read six stories (they are posted three at a time), write this review and then move on to my next book. I ended up reading twelve. And it doesn't really matter what specific niche genre the story Im reading is from Hill nails it everytime. They are completely realized tiny little worlds that make up this vast world that is and is not connected and to be able to elicit the emotions these stories do in such a small amount of space is gift. 

Finally, though its truly Hill's passion towards this project that puts these stories in a league of their own. 

I can not recommend subscribing to his Substack more and one more thing that makes this amazing is that you can start anywhere. Pick a post and start reading, go forward to the next one, hop and backwards and pick a completely random post, it doesn't matter. For a mood reader like me this is like a dream. 

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