Review: Very Steamy, Fun Shorts
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2011
I actually did this one in a different order - I first bought it becuase of Brook's Iron Seas story. Knowing that it would likely be my favorite, I read the other ones first (I've learned something as I've read anthologies - especially ones where I buy them because of one particular story).Overall, I really enjoyed all 3 (and I was quite surprised that I liked one of them).The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook: This one was short but so very sweet. I really liked it because it was the first in this series from a bounder POV (bounders are people from the New World who come back to England after the fall of the Horde). It gives a little taste of what the colonies think of the "infected" buggers in London. I liked Newbury a lot in Iron Duke, and it was nice to see his HEA (even if it did happen before ID).Vixen by Jill Myles: A were-vixen removes herself from people because her sexual appetite is too great (in the wild, vixens are naturally promiscuous and this translates for the were variety as well). Then hunters threaten her family, her mother sends 2 hot were cats, and I think we can all see where this one is going. Not my usual thing (to be honest, if the word "menage" is in the description, I pass it over), but it works. Probably because it's a short. I don't think I'd read more on this relationship, but I'll check out Myles other, more monogamous reads.Kitten-Tiger and the Monk by Carolyn Crane: Set in Crane's Disillusionist world, but focused this time on Sophia, Otto's right-hand woman, who is sick of the person she's become. Wow. I never would have thought that I'd feel anything but hate for Sophia, but I actually wanted her to have a HEA by the end. Not saying she doesn't have some more 'splainin' to do, but I'm rooting for her. Wondering what this means for events in book 3. Looking forward to that book even more. I also think that I preferred the 3rd person style in the short to the 1st person POV in the books. Just a personal preference when dealing with these characters.