Stories

Patchy.

In the book's introduction, Neil Gaiman explains the purpose of the book is to showcase stories which engender the reader to ask “...and then what happened?” However, the only really compelling story in the collection was by Gaiman himself, an outstanding fantasy story with magic and mystery hovering at the edges. There were other engaging tales, well-written narratives and compelling character studies, but not many. And unfortunately there were too many mediocre - and a couple of downright bad - stories included, which only made me ask “...but WHO CARES?!”