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

22 June 2009, 11:18 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Reading.

The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 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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Review: Hotter Than Hell

4 July 2008, 9:56 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.


Hot­ter Than Hell, the lat­est “Hell” anthol­ogy is edited and has an intro­duc­tion by Kim Har­ri­son. I don’t know if the sex­ier trend is her choice, a response to mar­ket demands, or some­thing else again.

The anthol­ogy is thicker than most, with longer pieces – short novellas? – by each of the 13 authors. I read a copy from the library, but it’s one of the few antholo­gies that I’d con­sider worth the $7.99 cover price.
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Happy Wednesday!

23 January 2008, 11:11 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under College, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Reading.

Sam and I had a very nice date night while Katie was out with her beau. He had started mak­ing chili last night, fin­ished it tonight, and added corn muffins. I’m not a big fan of chili (I won’t eat it if Sam didn’t make it), but it was a very sat­is­fy­ing meal.

The girl is doing very well in the online course she’s tak­ing, and I’m happy to say that my semes­ter is going well, too. It’s hard to believe that my baby will likely start col­lege courses this sum­mer or fall!
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More Fun Reading from Carrie Vaughn

25 November 2007, 11:21 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Reading.

I really needed another fic­tion author to fol­low, right? But I’ve seen this series of books about a were­wolf named Kitty, and I finally got a chance to read them. I fin­ished the first, Kitty and the Mid­night Hour, today and jumped right into Kitty Goes to Wash­ing­ton. I have Kitty Takes a Hol­i­day all lined up and ready to go, but I’m already wish­ing that I had the next vol­ume, Kitty and the Sil­ver Bul­let. And that, my dears, is a sign of a fine author spin­ning a very good yarn, con­sid­er­ing all the other books wait­ing and ready on my shelf.

The library has the books labeled as hor­ror, but I’d put them in the para­nor­mal romance/​dark fan­tasy cat­e­gory. Hap­pily, the “romance” part isn’t the most sig­nif­i­cant one, and doesn’t get in the way of good plot. There was a moment today when I won­dered if ">Vaughn and Kim Har­ri­son had shared a brain to a small extent, but they’ve dealt with a super­fi­cially sim­i­lar issue in very dif­fer­ent ways.

If it weren’t for the fact that I just finally got done with my school assign­ments for the week, and must get up when Sam does in the morn­ing, I’d prob­a­bly be sit­ting up reading!

Now I really need to find a source for these short sto­ries, though. Any of you have the rel­e­vant mag­a­zine issues?

 

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