Reception
Reviewer Don D'Ammassa, noting the appeal oriental fantasies have for him, "perhaps in part because there are relatively few of them," finds their combination with Richard Parks, "one of the few consistent and relatively prolific writers of short fantasy fiction," a convincing reason to buy the book. He describes the protagonist as "a kind of Elric figure, ... [b]ut where Elric was a simple character who occasionally gave vent to his guilty angst but showed few other emotions, Yamada is much more fully drawn over the course of the ten stories included here." He rates the stories "quite good and despite some superficial similarities quite varied as well. It's very hard to do this kind of story well at short length, but Parks carries it off again and again." He feels "[t]he first two [stories] plus 'Sanji's Demon' ... probably the strongest in the collection." [2]
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