Review: Quick Little Story that Peaked my Curiosity
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
The Early Girl Gets the Blood Wolf was a nice, quick little story centered around a town that is featured in most of Bardsley's books (from what I can tell most of her books have the broken heart tag- this is my first time reading her stuff.) Basically we have a jaded thief, with a hidden agenda, that has stolen something from a powerful witch.  She reluctantly enlists the assistance of the local paranormal community to help her defeat the witch before her time to return the stolen object expires.Usually I am not a huge fan of short stories but I rather enjoyed this one. This story packed a lot in a small amount of pages, so I can understand the complaint from another reviewer that there was not a lot of background, but for me that was fine- I liked the ability to fill in the blanks with my own assumptions. I thought that the dialogue was good, the pace high energy, and provided a satisfactory conclusion (short stories usually leave me a little unfullfilled, which was not the case here. So this was a big plus for me, bumping it to a 4 star review).  On a side note: There was enough flirty sparing to be a romance but there was no out of the blue sex or groping so it was very tame.My curiosity is peaked. I actually liked this story enough to try out one of her books. I hope it is equally entertaining.