willadams reviewed Echo One by Mercedes Lackey
Review of 'Echo One' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Exactly what it says on the tin --- a selection of short stories set in The Secret World Chronicles. Note that many of them were included with the podcast, but not with the printed books, so arguably, a better value for readers rather than listeners, but many were included w/ other short story collections, or published separately.
- Rise: January 5, 1935 --- the setup (which is something of a spoiler, so read this book last)
- Rise: September 9, 1940 --- another first
- Sgian Dubh (also published as "Dunkirk")
- White Bird --- WWII
- Valse Triste --- WWII
- Retrieval --- WWII
- Exemplar --- Victoria Nagy origin
- Into the Night --- another VN story
- Save a Prayer --- third
- The Longest Night --- fourth(a Christmas story)
- The Heir Apparent --- backstory on Jack
- Strike a Pose --- Echo image-making after …
Exactly what it says on the tin --- a selection of short stories set in The Secret World Chronicles. Note that many of them were included with the podcast, but not with the printed books, so arguably, a better value for readers rather than listeners, but many were included w/ other short story collections, or published separately.
- Rise: January 5, 1935 --- the setup (which is something of a spoiler, so read this book last)
- Rise: September 9, 1940 --- another first
- Sgian Dubh (also published as "Dunkirk")
- White Bird --- WWII
- Valse Triste --- WWII
- Retrieval --- WWII
- Exemplar --- Victoria Nagy origin
- Into the Night --- another VN story
- Save a Prayer --- third
- The Longest Night --- fourth(a Christmas story)
- The Heir Apparent --- backstory on Jack
- Strike a Pose --- Echo image-making after the initial attack
- For Those About to Rock --- VN and Red Djinni character development
- Waiting On --- John Murdoch character development/backstory
- Further On Up the Road --- short story about a new character and The Program
- All Mine --- another new character or three, another Program story
- Runnin' --- the escape of Red Djinni and Victoria Nagy