Today’s hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!In Charlaine Harris’ “Bacon,” a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In “Seeing Eye” by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing … find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected. And in Jim Butcher’s “Last Call,” wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers—the ones who dare to mess with this favorite beer.
For anyone who’s ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who’s imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection of short stories!
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Got book from library because it contained a novella by Patricia Briggs a favorite author. The other stories were pretty good.
Really enjoyed all but the last short story.
I bought this as a book on CD to listen to for car travel. The short stories were fun listens for long or short errands. I enjoyed the pieces by familiar authors and welcomed an introduction to writers I hadn’t tried before.
This is a series of short stories by favored authors. Many of the stories flush out the backstory of secondary characters from the main series. I highly recommend.
These authors always tell a good story!
OK, but weirder than I thought
Seeing Eye by Patricia Briggs 4.5
It’s the Tom and Moira origin story! I’ve read it before and I enjoyed it again. Tom, the werewolf seeks out the powerful blind witch to save his brother from an evil coven.
Death Warmed Over by Rachel Caine 4.5
Excellent PNR of a resurrection witch and a long fallen hero. If there had been sexy time it would have been five stars. The best short stories, like this one, are full stories.
Bacon by Charlaine Harris 4.5
I love Dahlia stories! This clever old vampire deserves her own series.
Vegas Odds by Karen Chance 4
Delicious action packed PNR with a war mage and a were.
Ginger: A Nocturne City Story by Caitlin Kittredge 3.5
A cautious witch stumbles into helping her badass werewolf cousin in police work.
Hecate’s Golden Eye by P.N. Elrod 3.5
A diamond caper and long con face two private detectives, one of whom is a vampire.
Signatures of the Dead by Faith Hunter 3
A witches and Jane Yellowrock hunt down a crazed group of vampires. The story was problematic in that halfway through it was mentioned vampires sleep in the day but by the end of the story that is not true. It’s important to stay plausible and consistent.
Last Call by Jim Butcher 2.5
Similar to the Maryann Forrester plot line in True Blood. That meaningless crazy is when I stopped watching that show.
Dark Sins by Jenna MacLaine 1.5
A vampiric witch comes into her power and everyone of her friends is ashamed of her. They believe themselves to be avenging forces of good but they hamper themselves. It was stupid.
Average 3.5 that I rounded up to four stars. This was a lovely audiobook to listen to while knitting.
In Charlaine Harris’ “Bacon,” a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband.
In Jim Butcher’s “Last Call,” wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers–the ones who dare to mess with this favorite beer. (My review of this entire book is based only on these 2 short stories.)
With most short story collections, things are hit and miss. Not the case here. I loved this collection! Every story was enjoyable, if not down right awesome. Some stood out more than others with fantastic writing and laugh out loud humor. If you like urban/modern fantasy, you can’t go wrong here.