Book 1, 2014

[chez_jae]

I didn't quite make it to 25 books in 2013, but instead of scaling back my goal for 2014, I am ramping it up. My goal is to read 30!

Off to a good start...

On Thursday, I finished reading Holidays Are Hell, which is an anthology of four short, holiday stories by renowned paranormal authors.

The first story by Kim Harrison featured her well-known character Rachel Morgan. It was an interesting take on Rachel's beginnings.

The second story, by Lynsay Sands, was about a woman who was turned into a shape-shifter by a diabolical scientist who wanted to study her. It was a different take on shape-shifters, in that Jill could assume any form, including taking on the appearance of other people as well as changing into an animal. Cute love story!

The third story was by Marjorie M Liu and told of government assassin Six going up against supernatural creatures with the help of a sexy necromancer.

The final story, written by Vicki Pettersson, may have been the most gripping, but there was no HEA in it. Boo.

All in all, a good, solid collection of stories. I'll give it four stars.

★★★★

Comments

[chez-jae.livejournal.com]

It's not so much the writing as the reading online I do that shuffles books to the back burner. Woe.

[enablelove.livejournal.com]

GO YOU! :) And good luck <3

[chez-jae.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks! My first two books of the year were "cheats", in that I began reading them in 2013. But, I couldn't count them then, so I'm counting them now. *nods*

[enablelove.livejournal.com]

hahha whatever works, Jae ;)

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

I <3 Marjorie Liu! I need to read more of her books. The first thing I read of hers was a shapeshifter romance (Tiger Eye) and then realized she was writing for Marvel comics, too. She did a Black Widow miniseries that was published as a graphic novel I really liked!

(And I'm glad you enjoyed Slow Surrender!)