*Rating* 3-3.5
*Genre* Young Adult

*Review*

When I heard that this book was being released, I decided to join the Defy The Dark's mini blog tour and agreed to post my honest thoughts on the stories, and the book itself. There are many different authors that I have followed or have read (1) or more of their works, that I had to see if this was worth the effort to read. I have decided to break down each story individually, instead of at a whole, so that you can see which one's I really liked, and whi More...

I have a lot of respect for these authors. It must be hard work, coming up with a memorable, creative story only twenty to thirty pages long. Many of these stories are either paranormal or dystopian, and that means thinking up a new world and its rules as well. Like I said, a lot of respect.

It's difficult to review anthologies, especially one with so many stories like Defy the Dark. If it had only three or four stories, I could review each one, but that isn't very practical, as there are around More...

See more of my reviews on Birth of a New Witch! My copy was an ARC I received for review from one of the contributing authors.

Sadly, my review of this is incomplete. My ARC is missing one story: "The Sunflower Murders" by Kate Espey, the winner of the Defy the Dark Author Contest. Yet another reason to buy the finished copy because it's sure to be awesome!

Anyway, some statistics first before I review each individual story. Number of authors whose stories I fell in love with and whose future publ More...

so proud to be part of this anthology!

http://defythedark.com/go-into-the-da...

also the final story could be written by YOU:

http://dailyfig.figment.com/2012/03/0...

There is one story that should be in the book that was a competition piece on figment that I entered. It had at least 2000 entries for it. Saundra read every entry.

While I felt it didn't live up to my expectations all that well, it was still an enjoyable read.

More: http://proudbooknerd.com/2013/03/14/r...

IS THIS CONTEMPORARY?!

oh the looooooooooooooove.

Awful cover but sounds like a great batch of authors!

Entered in this contest, and I'm probably not going to win, but that would be cool!

Review to come