Strange Candy
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story-now in paperback. From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story-now in paperback. From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework, readers will revel in the many twists and turns of fortune in these fantastical fairy tales and lush parables. Even hardened vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake gets blindsided by the disturbing motives of her clients in the new "Those Who Seek Forgiveness" and in "The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death."
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101205839 (1101205830)
Publish date: October 3rd 2006
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
This book has a few fun stories. A List of Cupids is especially fun.
Very nice, indeed, I didn't know Hamilton was such a good author of short stories, and that she delved in fantasy. This collection is very good and you can pick this book without any previous experience with Hamilton's series.
Those Who Seek Forgiveness is set in the Anitaverse, right before Guilty Pleasures. Back to the old pre-porn Anita, a story about a zombie raising where not everything that the client tells Anita is the truth, which has repercussions. A Lust of Cupids. A very short story about two people trying ha...
I read this mainly for the anita stories and i enjoyed those. There's been quite a change from this to her more recent ones.
An extensive collection of a wide variety of short stories covering everything from vampires to cupids. Very nice to read.