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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312947989
ISBN: 0312947984
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-12-02
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-12-02
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mixed Feelings
Comment: I can't decide how I feel about this collection.
I bought the anthology for JR Ward's "The Story of Son." On the one hand, I enjoyed Ward's tale. Her vampires always work for me when she's focusing on romantic relationships. On the other hand, I'm beginning to notice annoying trends in Ward's style that I initially missed or could ignore. For example, how many more times is Ward going to use the phrase "rank male aggression" in her stories? If I've read it once in the BDB series, I've read it a hundred times. It pops up in this story too. And although the romance b/t Michael and Claire is compelling stuff, Ward seems to be contradicting the rules she established for her vamps early in the BDB series. I could be wrong but see the bit on Claire's aging at the end of the story.
Good story w/ an unusual twist: the woman is the aggressor, the vampire is the innocent. But with Ward's foray into Urban Fantasy, who knows what will become of Claire and Michael? No one's happily ever after is guaranteed in UF.
I think the Kenyon tale requires a familiarity with the characters I don't have. I don't read a lot of Kenyon. I sensed I was missing a lot and maybe would have enjoyed Fury and Angelina more if I knew their seemingly turbulent history. However, Angelina seems too cold-hearted for Fury, who is apparently one really long-suffering dude. Fury is intriguing but I did not like her a bit!
With the Squires' story I had the opposite problem. I knew too much about the heroine's past career as sexual torturer in Mirso Monastary for me to like her. I know she's trying to go straight, find herself, etc. but YUCK! I kept recalling things she did to a hero in one of Squires' other books and my skin would crawl. I was actually more interested in Drew's relationship with his long-lost love and was disappointed to learn she was dead.
The Dianna Love story. I could not even finish it. I don't know if Trey and Sasha have been written about it previous books, but they already have a past when the story begins. I felt out of the loop. And the world-building was way out of control. I will not be reading anything by Love again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: somewhat disapointing...
Comment: In spite of the fact that I didn't like Angelia, kenyons story was the best in the lot in my opinion. I was really looking forward to J.R. Wards story, but of course I was expecting a "Brother", not a victim from People Under the Stairs! Dead After Dark was an interesting read, but surely didn't live up to my expectations.
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Summary: Awesome Storytellers
Comment: I love anthologies because they allow me to discover talented new storytellers as well as give me a taste of my favorite authors like Dianna Love and Sherrilyn Kenyon. Each short story left me with wanting more. Romance, paranormal, and tingling suspense on every page. Its tough to pack in a satisfying story in a short page count and these authors pulled it off with style. I'm looking forward to more from this group of awesome writers.
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Summary: One Great Story, Three OK Ones
Comment: The Best story in this anthology is Ward's great story about a high powered attorney who gets kidnapped by a client and fed to the woman's captive vampire son whose been a prisoner in his own home for about 70 years. Having never had much of a conversation with the women he feeds from only once a year the son (who has never been even given a name) finds himself in his first intimate relationship with the spunky woman who doesn't look on him as a monster but as a beautiful human being who she finds value in and whom she's determined to help. However their future hangs on a gossamer thread as the lawyers memory is wiped clean and a malevolent servant who stands to gain a fortune comes between the lovers.
Kenyon's story for Fury the were-hunter misfit was a bit disappointing. He's an interesting enough of a character that he could have championed his own entire story. And his heroine is dismally disappointing. After thinking he was a horrible, animal cretin for four hundred years and having attempted to stab him to death, she just jumps into the sack with him one night and bonds her life to him. As well, the villain of the story sacrifices himself for the hero in a very uncharacteristic and unexplained move.
Squires tale of a vampiress seeking calmness in her life only to be disturbed by a former pirate looking for pay back from those who did him wrong as a boy proves that the anthology was badly named. Vampires are not dead after dark. Well constructed this story plays out through their meeting, her saving him and their love standing up to her father, but their appeared to be a large amount of back story the reader missed out on.
Dianna Love's tale of a slutty witch and the Belador warrior ( a Celtic warrior who serves Macha the goddess and has amazing telekinetic and physical power, apparently) held a lot of promise even if the heroine's wardrobe did not. However, what could have been a very entertaining tale seems to have been overly edited to a distracting point. Still it has promise and I wouldn't mind reading something of hers again in the future, which she certainly has set the characters up for.
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Summary: A Comeback For J.R. Ward
Comment: I am die hard fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon whose stories are always full of emotional intensity and she always remains true to her fans; however, J.R. Ward's "The Story of Son" eclipsed all of the others. I must admit that although I have read all of J.R. Ward's Brotherhood series, the last two books left me wondering what was happening in the mind of J.R. Ward. In one book the heroine was a ghost and in her last book the hero was a drug addict- this made me question if she'd forgotten what made a busy woman want to pick up and take the time to read a romance novel in the first place. Well I must say, Ms. Kenyon finally remembered. I have already read "The Story of Son" three times and I wish it were longer. The innocence and sensitivity of a lonely vampire out of touch with the world, yet instinctively knowing just what a woman wants- when to be aggressive and when to be tender-was so endearing and not just to me but to the hard-nosed heroine who finally recognized the missing piece of feminity that made her both strong and soft. Although this was a short story, it didn't feel rushed like some of the others did. The characters were so well developed that I really felt I knew them and I didn't want to say goodbye to Claire and her ability to recognize what she wanted and needed or to Michael's protectiveness and and willingness to leave the familiar when his mate and unborn child were threatened). J.R. Ward finally concentrated on the two individuals in the story that meant the most and not on a thousand other plot lines. I hope Ms. Ward keeps this type of writing at the forefront because I can't wait to read her next book.
If I had to rank the stories of this anthology in order of "must read" to "can do without", this is the order they'd be placed in: The Story of Son(Ward), Shadow of the Moon(Kenyon), Beyond the Night(Squires), and Midnight Kiss Goodbye(Love).
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