by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas
Just read Taken in Death by JD Robb.
Taken in Death by J.D. Robb:Didn't read it. I've only made it to #32 of the In Death series, so I'll come back to this one after I hit #37.If Wishes Were Horses by Mary Blayney:Pretty good. I'd have liked to see a bit more of the coin's magic and I think the "I love yous" were a bit corny in their t...
I liked this set of stories based on fairy tales.J D Robb takes on Hansel and Gretel in Taken in Death. Twins are stolen by a woman who looks like their mother and they try to leave some breadcrumbs for someone to find them.If Wishes were horses tells the tale of a servant who finds true love when ...
These collections are generally fairly crappy, but the fairy-tale theme seems to have been unusually inspiring. I skipped the inevitable Mary Blaney "magic coin" story, because I never find them very interesting, and R.C. Ryan's take on Cinderella was too corny for words, but the others used paranor...
Only enjoyed the JD Robb story.
I bought this because of the name JD Robb. I liked the Robb and the Mary Blanely stories the best. The rest of them were rather weak. They needed much more development, whereas both Robb and Blanely's stories seemed complete as is. For Robb, that may be because we are already familiar with the chara...
This is for Taken in Death onlyI'm not a fan of the novellas in this series but this was a very nice surprise, one where the short format works. It's a race against time to find Henry and Gala (our Hansel & Gretel), who've been kidnapped. The next 24 hours is a tense and exciting ride with Eve Dalla...
Whenever a new “In Death” book is released can a short story compilation be very far behind? In this newest entry the various authors put their talents to the test reinventing fairy tales for a modern audience while maintaining their own writing genre. Eve Dallas and Rourke are on the trail of a “...
MIRROR, MIRROR is an anthology comprised of five authors: J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas and R.C. Ryan. Of these five, I’ve only read Robb so I decided that it would be nice to explore the works of the others while still getting my Roarke fix!What intrigued me about this antho...