clipped from: www.readforpleasure.com   
I'd call the collection a cross-section of supernatural and straight-up sci fi/fantasy, generally involving significant romantic relationships.



Follow Me Light by Elizabeth Bear
Alternately arid and gripping, in part because the story's time moves at varying speeds. At a couple of points Pinky comes into crisp focus with strong physical description; near the end the narrator does too.
Grade: B+

A Maze of Trees by Claudia O'Keefe
A strangely lovely story, full of longing and loneliness and sense of place. An excellent grounding in the physical world sets up a connection between the inner/outer realities that's essential to the story.
Grade: A-

The Shadowed Heart by Catherine Asaro
Straight-up space sci fi. The characters are drawn in very archetypal male/female constructs: he large, half-machine, a warrior, isolated; she small, frail, a teacher, self-sacrificing, with a loving family.
Grade: C-


A Knot of Toads by Jane Yolen
Delightfully nouveau-Gothic. Yolen has a light, deft hand