No Rest for the Witches (Nightcreature, #7.5; Dark Sorcery, #3.5; The Others, #3.5) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Feb 26, 2011 Brandi ;) rated it liked it

Shelves: fairies-witches-vampires-and-were, collection, paranormal-romance, 2011

I'm giving this book 3 generous STARS because I didn't exactly read each story all the way through and it just seemed fair.
Except for the first one, The Majicka by MaryJanice Davidson. This story I completely read and I loved it. It could be because I love MJD and her Undead series, although I did overdose on Queen Betsy and had to back away for awhile, but that's another story. The Majicka was cute and funny as Hell. The main character, Ireland, is sort of a supernatural creature horder. She f I'm giving this book 3 generous STARS because I didn't exactly read each story all the way through and it just seemed fair.
Except for the first one, The Majicka by MaryJanice Davidson. This story I completely read and I loved it. It could be because I love MJD and her Undead series, although I did overdose on Queen Betsy and had to back away for awhile, but that's another story. The Majicka was cute and funny as Hell. The main character, Ireland, is sort of a supernatural creature horder. She finds, or they find her, these paranormal beings and takes them into her home to care for or just let them become her roomies in her big farm house. Judith was hilarious and I adorded Ezra. The only thing was the relationship between Ireland and Micah was too fast for me, for this I wish it was a full book, not just a short story. So 4.5 STARS for The Majika.
Didn't read Voodoo Moon by Lori Handeland for 2 reasons. First she dissed my precious X-Files on the first page. I was obsessed with the show back in the day, I don't take kindly to it being called 'utterly far fetched', especially since I'm and avid paranormal reader. I love the utterly far fetched with a passion. As long as there's some sex, but that's beside the point. Anywho, second thing against the story, of maybe this should be the first, is it is about Voodoo. I have yet to get into the Voodoo stories (or Zombie stories), so if I find a short about either, it automatically gets a little inward groan from me. I generally will still read it, but with the other strike against it I decided to skip this one.
Read about half of Breath of Magic by Cheyenne McCray. Couldn't really get into it, started skimming A LOT and finally skimmed to the good stuff. That would be the sex scenes. They were good, but as I mentioned in my update I just couldn't get past the author calling the main chicks goodies a 'channel'. A lot. It was just weird to me.
So that brought me to the last story, Any Witch Way She Can by Christine Warren. Wow, I rode the roller coaster with this one. One minute I liked it, the main character Randy made me laugh and she seemed pretty spunky. Then the next minute I was like, Really are ya that stupid? She would annoy the poodle poop out of me and then say something funny and I'd like her again. Seriously, I hated and liked her about every other page. She was great until the third chapter and then she turned stupid. She grew up with magic, should know how serious it is and that it is not to be played with yet she stupidly casts a spell with out doing it properly and says 'hey, what can go wrong?' Really? It could have been funny, but it was like the author was trying way to hard and ended up making the character an idiot with a mouth. I wanted to slap her. BUT i did read it all the way through and I give it 3 STARS for it's humor. Nothing more.
So, even though I didn't read all the stories, I have put a few of the authors' full books on my tbr shelf cause I know short stories don't show all of an authors potential (sometimes) and I want to give them more of a chance. I could tell myself again that I am staying away from anthologies, but I know better now, if one comes along I'll pick it up and feel no shame skimming if I have too. ...more

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