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Title: Ugh, don't bother!
Review: As a teen living with women who love words, I get a lot of great gifts in the form of books. And I like Charles de Lint. EXCEPT when he is writing for or about us young 'uns. His teenage characters are bland, often stupid in their inexperience, and they talk like no real teenager I've ever met. Even the two Newford stories included in this volume, ostensibly written for adults, are just - boring, and unrealistic, and preachy.It's apparrent - and de Lint says as much in his intro - that what we have here is a publisher (or perhaps an editor, Ms. Windling?) bent on wringing every last cent out of de Lint's fame, so they cobbled this thing together for the "youth market," knowing people like my loved ones would trustingly scoop it up to gift young fans. They got gulled. Don't let it happen to you!
