50bookchallenge, 15000pages
Book #52 -- Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland, Dates From Hell, 404 pages.
This is a collection of four novellas focusing on, as the title suggests, paranormal relationships. I bought it originally for the Kelley Armstrong novella, which gives some of the backstory of one of the characters in her Women of the Otherworld series, but I found I liked the other stories quite a bit as well, with the possible exception of the Kim Harrison story, which seemed too far entrenched in her very complex fictional world to be fully understood by someone who hasn't read her other work. Come to think of it, the Armstrong novella might suffer from the same problem for those not familiar with her series, since there were a lot of references to things that happened in other books, but being a fan of the series myself that didn't bother me at all. The Sands and Handeland novellas appeared to be mostly standalone, and quite good.
Progress toward goals: 175/365 = 47.9%
Books: 52/100 = 52.0%
Pages: 12969/30000 = 43.2%
2009 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven
This is a collection of four novellas focusing on, as the title suggests, paranormal relationships. I bought it originally for the Kelley Armstrong novella, which gives some of the backstory of one of the characters in her Women of the Otherworld series, but I found I liked the other stories quite a bit as well, with the possible exception of the Kim Harrison story, which seemed too far entrenched in her very complex fictional world to be fully understood by someone who hasn't read her other work. Come to think of it, the Armstrong novella might suffer from the same problem for those not familiar with her series, since there were a lot of references to things that happened in other books, but being a fan of the series myself that didn't bother me at all. The Sands and Handeland novellas appeared to be mostly standalone, and quite good.
Progress toward goals: 175/365 = 47.9%
Books: 52/100 = 52.0%
Pages: 12969/30000 = 43.2%
2009 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven