Eight: Fantastical Tales from Here, There and Everywhere - Poornima Manco - ★★★★.¼
AUTHOR: Poornima Manco GENRE: Short Story Anthology. SERIES: Around the World, #2 RATING: 4.25 stars. The title and the tagline of this book tell you precisely what this book has: eight fantasy stories from around the world. But is that ever enough in a review? Aren’t you always curious to know more? Read on to see if the book does justice to every part of its name. “Eight”: The number of the stories in this little anthology was just right for me. Not too many, not too few. I read a story a day, but each tale is so different from each other than even if you read it in a go, you won’t find it repetitive. “Fantastical”: Often assumed to be only the adjective form of ‘fantasy”, “fantastical” actually contains a broader meaning: strange, bizarre, outworldly. Every story in this book fits most of these adjectives as each has some content from out of this world, literally. Don’t take this to be your typical fairies and dragons kind of fantasy. Each tale has a specific magical element and in