carlamo - reviewed on 2/23/2008 + 269 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

The other reviewers have written some good stuff about these stories, so I won't go into great detail here. But it can't hurt to add my two cents worth.

Probably the worst thing about this book is that it starts with the story by Kim Harrison about about her living vampire, Ivy Tamwood. I've read the first book in the series, so I thought I would really enjoy a little side story about one of the characters. Boy, was I wrong! While I can usually gobble up a short story fairly quickly, I literally had to force myself to finish this 100 pages of self-important, confusing, "deeper meaning" drivel over the course of six months. And do I feel any further enlightened about the tormented Ivy Tamwood (a character I never really felt connected to, anyway)? Okay, folks, that was a rhetorical question. Unless you absolutely must read everything by Harrison, do yourself a major favor and skip this story. Ivy is in inner tormoil, tormented by the way she connects sex and blood. Oops, I gave away the whole story. Sorry.

The Claire Switch Project was okay. Just okay. Nothing to write home about. Unless, of course, you want to write home about using animals for scientific experiments. Actually, the entire story is just a cute excuse for punch line. Unfortunately, the writer, Lynsay Sands, decided to add two extra pages to the story with a "Five Years Later" bit. It didn't really detract from the story, but didn't add much, in my opinion.

Read the book for Kelley Armstrong's Chaotic and Lori Handeland's Dead Man Dating, in that order. Finis.

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