I'm a sucker for these UF anthologies. I always fish in and usually end up liking only a handful of the stories. Which was the case with this one. With some I'd never read the series they were based on, so when I got lost I gave up on the stories. Charlaine Harris' Dahlia story wasn't bad...prob...
George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, neither of which are names I instantly associate with urban fantasy, edit this collection of short stories. Martin makes the claim in the introduction that Urban Fantasy is the bastard child of two genres: Noir and Horror. I can see his point, to a degree, and...
I had to borrow this book because I was only interest in the story by Patricia Briggs, featuring Warren and Kyle from the Mercy Thompson series. So this review is only about that story.I loved it, but at the same time I was left wanting more. Much More. The mystery part was really interesting and I ...
A collection of stories by mostly well-known authors, purportedly all detectives in urban fantasy stories. In actual fact, many of these stories are not set anywhere near cities, several have no magical or supernatural elements, and at least two are neither urban nor fantasy. So I'm not actually su...
Only read and rated for Patricia Briggs's In Red, With Pearls, a short story featuring Warren Smith, a well known character in the Mercy Thompson series, as he pursues one of his cases as a PI involving zombies and grudges. It is a good little mystery piece but too brief to give the ending the prop...
Audbiobook. I do own the hardback. Anthology. 3.44 stars average. So, for such a large anthology, this one was better than average because usually the larger they are, the worse the rating. Introduction The bastard stepchild by George R.R. Martin. I was surprised he didn't include his own shor...
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