I really enjoyed this series. Although how the third book is going to squeeze in 17 to 30 in just one novel...? He's going to have to do some trial-like skips.
I enjoyed it for its novelty. The quality of the stories was wildly inconsistent. It wasn't terribly sexy, and the sex that was there tended to be...tamer...than I'd expected.
But I appreciate the collaborative effort to add something different and diverse to this particular scifi/horror genre.
I liked the magic mechanism, and the story was a fairly well-written, fast read. I appreciated that it avoided some obvious tropes, including ending in a fairly brave fashion. Technically, a 3.5.