you haven't read this book, goodluck, This book was published very limitedly and then the publisher folded, I was lucky enough to read when I worked at a book store, I thought it was light cute and funny and because of this book I discoveredorauthors that i'm still reading now.
The stupidest book. I quit part way through because it was sooo ridiculous! This book was so confusing, . . but in a good way, It's a literary soap opera, Each chapter usually followed a new set of characters living in the enchanted town and eventually overlapped to make sense toward the end.
It was fun trying to keep up with everyone's different stories,
Most "episodes" rated NCAll stories were winners Read:
the stories by PC Cast and MaryJanice Davidson This one was hard for me to read.
I knew it was a compilation but there was just too many cooks in the kitchen on this one, I really only liked about half of the stories and the ones I liked ended way to quickly, There were characters that I was interested in reading about but very little time was devoted to any one character, Overall it took a lot of effort on my part to finish this book due to the choppy nature, Not bad, not great. Though the firststories are in that first category, After that the stories got a lot better and held together, with a few exceptions, I'm glad I hung in, I liked the concept of a TV serieslike set of short stories that were related to on another, though by different authors.
The Witches of Brokenoggin amp the Dead Who Love Them by Gena Showalter
Light fluffy reading, While there was nothing I could point to and say that was what was wrong about this story, I was very happy to be done with it.
It came across as very surface reading, not depth,
what plot what story This is a book of short stories, meant to be like a Desperate Housewives tv show in book form, except set in a town that's full of the super natural, like werewolves, vampires, witches, dragons, etc.
, etc. I bought it from the library book sale for my vampire collection, I didn't quite know that all the stories are written by romance writers,
It was AWFUL, Every story had the same basic plot, Older woman who hasn't had sex or good sex in a long time, some new person comes along with amazing sex, or something happens to relight their sex life with their husband.
The book stole plots from Memento at least it gives Memento credit, I'm keeping the book just for my Vampire collection, but there was onlystories that I was even remotely interested in, even those really weren't any good, just a bit more interesting.
One where the town paster falls for a demon just kicked out of hell, one where a half succubus finds a half incubus aw, they no longer kill people when they have sex, how sweet.
There's a second one in the series, I don't think I'm interested, Although, maybe I pick it up from a library book sale for my collection anyway, Oy. Bewitched, Bothered amp BeVampyred by Mary Jo PutneyBad reviews but, I Wanna Read it tho!!
Great authors I know and read/love: Gena Showalter P, C. Cast MaryJanice Davidson Shelly Laurenston Susan Grant Judi McCoy
Funny titles and, . . I'm just intrigued, amused. Wanna read it and so I shall! We'll see if I like it: Meh, The intro pretty much turned me off of this, Read the set up poem, legend, which was OK, but only a couple of pages into the first act this didn't seem like anything I want to waste my time on.
Sending it off to a new home, What to say, what to say, Overall I liked this book but only because it was so ridiculous I couldn't stop laughing, It was a soap opera on crack and after a couple of minutes I went back for another fix after I put it aside to stop reading.
I liked the characters I guess overall to a degree but there were too many to keep track of at any given time in all the different stories.
I understand that will happen withwriters but it jumped from here, to there, to oh look a toad, . Never did fully understand what was up with the chihuahuas, I got it because of Mary Janice Davidson and Mary Jo Putney and will continue reading the series because I am hooked on the characters but honestly if I was warned before hand I probably wouldn't have bothered.
Good, silly fun. Bewitching vampiric erotica.
'Nuff said.
I read the first two stories and wasn't impressed, Very disappointing. annoying. 'X Marks the GSpot' By
Shelly Laurenston
Only read the Shelly Laurenston story, The Tail!!!! Ditched it. Too far out of my genre pref, I chose it based on the author, rather than the story line, I was told that This book was published in a very limited run and then the publisher folded, After reading it I can see why, What a waste of time!
Now, I like PNR just as much as the next gal so I picked it up looking for some new authors.
I thought that the concept of it being written to imitate in some ways the TV show Desperate Housewives set in a town that's full of the supernatural could be cute! Boy.
. . was I wrong. It was AWFUL! Every story has the same basic plot, Older woman who hasn't had sex in a millennia or so just happens to meet some new supernatural being with whom to end the draught with.
Ho. Hum. Been there . done that. Bought the tshirt. Love the author but the trouble I went through to get a copy of it really was not worth the read, Welcome to Brokenoggin Falls, where the housewives are not only desperate, they're Witches! And one of them might be a Harpy
The spells cast by moonlight frequently go awry.
And there are times when toads and Chihuahuas seem abundant as black flies in the summer, the dragons are a little touchy, the Forest Trolls are in danger of extinction from teenyboppers, the Gryphons need help conceiving and.
. . the scientist are crunchy and good with ketchup, . .
Brokenoggin Falls
Beforeword Bewitched, Bothered amp BeVampyredES by Terese Ramin
The Legend of BraughNaughtonPOEM by Jennifer St.
Giles
Naked Came the VampyreSF by Terese Ramin
The Harpy in the Clock TowerSF by Rachel Carrington
The Witches of Brokenoggin amp the Dead Who Love ThemSF by Gena Showalter
Crunching Scientist, Hidden DragonSF by Sophia Nash
How to Seduce an Amnesiac VampyreSF by Kathryn Caskie
The Loch's Stressed Dragon's HalfSisterSF by Elizabeth Holcombe
Feed Your HeadSF by Patricia Rice
A Spell of C.
R. A. F. T.SF by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Night MaresSF by MaryJanice Davidson
Dancing in the StreakSF by Lynn Warren
X Marks the GSpotSF by Shelly Laurenston
The Toad PrinceSF by Terese Ramin
A Dance Through the Garden of Good And EvilSF by Susan Grant
The Skeletons in the ClosetSF by Annihilation Jones and Leroy
A Dragon's TaleSF by Mary Jo Putney
LOFT: ROGGTrolls Gone WildSF by Linda Wisdom
Pieces of DestinySF by Michelle Rowen
LOFT: RROGGSam's RepentanceSF by Judi McCoy
Dorothea's WizardSF by Jennifer St.
Giles
Soulless from SeattleSF by Fiona MacLeod and Terese Ramin
Everybody Loves DragonsES by Terey daly Ramin
"Flaming, Hot, and Bothered"SF by Sophia Nash
The Loch's Stressed Dragon's HalfSisterSF by Elizabeth Holcombe
Candy Cox and the Big Bad WereWolfSF by P.
C. Cast
Suzi Stiletto: Recovering Demon SlayerSF by Alyssa Day only as by Alesia Holliday She writes young adult fiction as sitelink M.
J. Putney. Mary Jo Putney was born onin Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure.
After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Balti, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.
While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes.
When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fool She writes young adult fiction as sitelink M.
J. Putney. Mary Jo Putney was born onin Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure.
After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Balti, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.
While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes.
When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better.
“But why didn't anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads” Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full time writer as soon as possible.
Since, Ms. Putney has published twenty nine books and counting, Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse, She has made all of the national bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USAToday, and Publishers Weekly, Five of her books have been named among the years top five romances by The Library Journal, The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.
A nine time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors.
She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance.
Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published three contemporary romances, The Marriage Spell will be out in Junein hardcover, and Stolen Magic written as M, J. Putney will be released in July, Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a full time writing career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.
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