I have joined a challenge. Avid Reader over at avidbookreader.com is hosting this TBR Challenge. Here’s what you do. You read books from your TBR pile and review them on the 3rd Wed of each month. Everyone who participates each month now until Dec gets entered into a drawing for a $100 gift card.
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding is a collection of nine short stories. Short stories aren’t my favorite writing medium. I find that authors typically try to tell too much story and end up not writing it thoroughly enough. However, I do like reading collections like this one because it introduces me to new authors and lets me sort of test drive them. I was ultimately disappointed in the book. There are nine stories in the collection. My favorite was Lori Handeland’s Charmed by the Moon. I really thought that she did a nice job of keeping the number of characters proportioned correctly for the length of the story. I didn’t feel like the characters got short-changed at all. I felt there was more story to tell afterwards without feeling like the author just left me hanging. While I enjoyed Sherrilyn Kenyon’s A Hard Day’s Night-Searcher, I felt that the Rafael and Celena’s story was told in too hasty of a manner. I fell in love with the characters but their story was finished too completely in this short story. I enjoy reading Charlaine Harris and Rachel Caine. Their entries were good but did not live up to expectation. I had to force myself to finish three of the nine stories. I won’t recommend this particular book to my friends as it fell short of my high expectations.
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