Strange Brew Book

Seeing Eye by Patricia Briggs

3.5 Stars

This was VERY short as in only 24 pages, but I still really liked it and it has encouraged me to give Patricia Briggs another shot.

Last Call by Jim Butcher

3.5 Stars

Another story that again was really short, about 50 pages, but was entertaining, I haven't read any of the Dresden Files books but this little snippet has inspired me to put it on my TBR mountain.

Death Warmed Over by Rachel Caine

5 Stars

I really liked this story, abobut a witch who resurrects the dead and falls in love with the man she brings back (not as gross as it sounds!) In the small amount of pages it had, it managed to fit in romance and some action.

Vegas Odds by Karen Chance

5 Stars

I don't know if I am bias giving this particular story 5 Stars as I am already a massive Karen Chance fan anyways. It packed in loads of action and a but like the Cassie Palmer books, Lia, our heroine stumbles from one fight to the next. It had some nice twists in it and a touch of romance and I really enjoyed it.

Hecate's Golden Eye by P N Elrod

4 Stars

This was a great read, it had a bit of humour, a stolen diamond and 1930s detective work with a vampire thrown in! I haven't read anything by P N Elrod before but I would again.

Bacon by Charlaine Harris

2 Stars

I didn't like this one at all, it was set in the same world as the Sookie books with a vampire called Dahlia who wants revenge on her husbands killers, I didn't like Dahlia, I found her irritating and didn't really sense that she was that anguished by her late husbands death to go to all this trouble to avenge him. This story also has a twist at the end the reminded me of a short story I once read by Roahl Dahl, but this had a very long build it to something that was just a bit "meh"

Signatures of the Dead by Faith Hunter

3 Stars

This was quite good, about some rogue vampires that rip apart a family and an earth with and Jane Yellowrock help track them down and take out the nest. Although this story was good to read at the time there was nothing spectacular or memorable about it

Ginger by Caitlin Kittredge

3 Stars

This was a novella in the Nocturne City series by Caitlin Kittredge, which I have actually read the first one of this month, much like the "Night Life" the first in th Nocturne City series, this was okay, but didn't really encourage me to go out and by the next in the series.

Dark Sins by Jenna Maclaine

4 Stars

I really liked this! It is a novella in the Cin Craven series and I don't think I should have read it really until I had read atleast the first book (which right now is looking at me from my bookcase!) but I couldn't help myelf and wanted a sample of what her writing was like. I wasn't disappointed and I found the story and characters really interesting and "Wage of Sin" has been bumped up on my to-read list.

So.....

I have decided to give this anthology a 4 Star rating, it had some great stories in there, especially the Karen Chance, Rachel Caine and Jenna Maclaine ones. There was only one story that I actually disliked, "Bacon" by Charlaine Harris. So this book is well worth a look at, and I would recommed it to anyone looking for something new to read who wants to look at some new authors styles.