As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.★★★☆☆ Knickerbocker Holiday by Richard Bowes★★☆☆☆ That Girl by Kaaron Warren★☆☆☆☆ Akbar by...
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the A...
Short stories, or no real quality or interest, just ok. They read IMHO like cast off stories published to fit the current vamp craze.
This is a retrospective of vampire fiction published 2000-2010. I liked the introduction. It was a good description of the evolution of vampire fiction.I'll only rate the ones I particularly liked. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown * Holly Black - 3.5 starsThis Is Now * Michael Marshall Smith - 3 stars...
It was a good anthology, with quite a few unknown authors to me. Some stories were quite original and some quite scary. I especially liked an interesting take on vampires in the last one.Generally I would recommend it to find out if you like an author or not, but I can't be very objective as I'm not...
I'll have to read this again so I can review it story by story as I'm doing with my other anthologies, but the story I remember standing out was Trudi Canavan's. It's because of this that I got out her first series from my book storage.
This collection is pretty uneven. There are some really good stories and some not so good. The one that stands out in my mind is the Graham Masterson story, "The Seven Secret Senses" (I think that's the title). The protagonist is a young chef of Asian descent (yay) who gets approached by a strange, ...