Toby D. (bookswapper) reviewed Lame Anthology - can make even paranormal action adventures boring on 5/18/2009 + 188 more book reviews

Very glad that I got this book at the library so that I did not waste a credit. I could not get into the Kenyon story at the beginning of the book - a bad sign when the "lead off" short story is weak. The next story was more engaging "Son" by JR Ward, but had a weird/creepy child abuse feel to it. I read the Susan Squires story "Beyond the Night" with some hope that at least something in the book would be good - it was written okay, but once it got shoehorned into the series with all the weird species, it fell apart for me. The last story in this book was not worth skimming - I read part of the first two chapters and called it quits.

I wish some of these authors that keep writing in their own little universes would get over themselves and take the opportunity to write a real short story, that can stand on its own. Kenyon had so many characters in her story, it would only make sense to a diehard fan of the series. The other stories had a lighter hand, more like short stories with fewer characters. The Squires story was okay, and would have been better if you weren't jolted with all manner of unnecessary supernatural contrivances based on her other books.

Save your money and your time. All the stories were average or below average in this book.

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