So Jason M. Waltz has been asking me to reivew Neither Beg Nor Yield for, well, a long time. When he first asked, I wasn’t reviewing current works because I didn’t want to create a conflict of interest for myself by givng a less than positive review to an editor I might want to submit to.

I’ve since modified that policy.

I had dipped into this anthology, but I hadn’t read it straight through. So I decided to read it from the front cover to the back.

Neither Beg Nor Yeild is a hefty anthology devoted to “sowrd and sorcery with attitude”. Given the time contraints I have on my reading, I decided to break up the reivew into four parts. (There are twenty stories here, so four reviews covering five stories is what I’m going to do.) If I waited until I fiinished the book, I would have forgotten half the stories. I’m just going to give a brief description of the stories rather than plot details.

So here is the first of four reviews covering the first five tales in the book. The other reviews will be posted over the next mumblety-mumble months as I work the reading into my shcedule. Continue reading →