Review: Get This, You Might Need It!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
Had a hard time rating this since it is not really a novel but a collection of things any fan of the series would like.  I have read most of it already since I am a diehard fan of Jane Yellowrock since I stumbled upon Skinwalker years ago and then grabbed everything that concerned her when I found it BUT the pieces of stories from Bruiser's point of view were new and I enjoyed them as I did the snippets of advice from Beast (they are really funny).I would say that for anyone new to this series that this is a 1-stop place for origins and meanings of things you will see and does give a great background to increase the enjoyment of this series.I would keep it close when reading the books if you stumble across something you don't recognize or forgot about, the glossary and character lists would be helpful.There are some teasers for the books and some summaries, nice to have if your memory fails you on occasions (like mine) when trying to pull up something that happened in a novel you read 2 years ago :)The most valuable thing in these pages is the summary/timeline of all the books up to Black Arts, you can scan the whole series in about 100+ pages.  Nice, I wish all my series had such summaries :) I have to gush about this a bit since I can actually start the new book pretty much knowing everything I need to know about what has happened before now (not a substitute for reading the books but great memory jog for anyone who has)Bottom Line:  This is a reference book for the most part and a great collection of the short stories that are part of this series but have been scattered about until now.  Keep it where you can get to it when you read the next one and it might help you out.  As a stand alone book, it was never meant to be that except for newer fans who won't have to purchase all those anthologies to get the stuff inside here.  If you are a fan of this series, get this book  ....period.