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Review: The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance, edited by Trisha Telep

22 June 2009, 11:18 pm. Comments. Filed under Reading.

The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance by Trisha Telep

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m extremely surprised by how much I enjoyed this anthology! I picked it up intending to just read the stories by authors I know I like — Kelley Armstrong, Ilona Andrews, Carrie Vaughn, Holly Lisle, Jeaniene Frost, Maria V. Snyder. I had never heard of some of the other authors. A few names I remembered seeing in other anthologies and not enjoying their work.

I did, however, deliberately put myself in a tolerant mindset: this is a book of romance stories. It wouldn’t be fair to judge them as anything else.

That worked rather better than it has in the past. I still got a little annoyed at having so much of each story dedicated to couples (and all het/mono couples, at that!) rather than some intriguing world ideas, but managed to stay on track.

In the end, I only skipped one story — I just don’t like the Weather Wardens stuff at all. I found a couple of others substandard, but all in all, Telep chose very well. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys paranormal romance (maybe even those who usually stick to just romance), and most urban fantasy fans.

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Patrick Garry

As a writer I always love to hear recommendations. I just saw a quote that was about all of the things you want to do and can't do all at once, and reading a lot of books at once is one of them. You can read a couple "at once" but not simultaneously, that's what we need!