Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Amazon preorder,Amazon received

Abigail's three part review can be seen at All Things Urban Fantasy:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

To find Abigail's review of a particular story, click on the links below:
Rogue Elements by Karen Chance
Gift Wrap by Charlaine Harris
Il Est Ne by Carrie Vaughn
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I love to read Sookie Stackhouse stories...and this one definitely gives insight into her (creepy) grandfather. (I only read the Sookie story because it's the only one I care about. I'm sure the other stories are wonderful, especially if you like to read about werewolves.) ( )

This was a great quick read. Most of the stories were upbeat, a couple were creepy, only skipped through one that was dragging, and reading it outside of the holiday season wasn't much of a problem. Yes, each story dealt in some way with a warewolf and the holiday, but these writers were very creative with the guidelines. Actually, the only one I didn't really like was the Charlaine Harris story. Big spoiler, but how is it ok that Sookie's grandfather essentially bought her a one night stand for the holidays? The whole thing was kinda icky. ( )

some of the stories were good, some didn't really impress, overall not a bad set of stories. All of the stories were about werewolves, some also featured vampires too, some other supernatural creatures appeared and very few of them also featured romance.

Gift wrap - Charlane Harris, not bad, some moral issues with it. Though it could be a good place to start with questioning the difference between fey concepts of forced sex and human equivalents.

Haire of the Beast by Donna Andrews- interesting, fun solution to nasty ex. An old alchemical work has a woman helping her brother try out being a wolf, and lets her get her revenge on an ex in an interesting way.

Lucy, at Christmastime by Simon R Green, set in his Nightside setting but without any of the main characters, sad, touching, interesting

The Night things Changed - by Dana Cameron- dealing with evil where vampires and werewolves good, nice story, interesting twist on the Vampire and Werewolf genre

Werewolf before christmas by Kat Richardson - werewolf eats rudolph, santa uses werewolf, dark

Fresh Meat by Alan Gordon - werewolf gets his own back on a hunter.

Il est ne by Carrie Vaughn - Kitty helps a new werewolf discover if he was the killer of some people and to find out more about himself.

Perfect gift by Dana Stabenow - werewolf serial killers, latent werewolf cop and werewolf partner. Meh, didn't really grasp me.

Christmas Past by Keri Arthur - Hannah has to work with Brodie who dumped her last Christmas, and has been ignoring her phone calls and attempts to communicate, now he wants back in her life. Complicated, interesting.

SA by J A Konrath, the were creatures battle santa and the salvation army (who are the bad guys) to stay alive and this one kept me chuckling and entertained.

The Star of David by Patricia Biggs a mercenary werewolf is asked by his estranged daughter to help with a foster child with issues. The characters really did come alive in the story.

You better not Pyout by Nancy Pickard was an interesting story of a vampire santa and a werewolf looking to protect some African wild dogs.

Rogue Elements by Karen Chance - complicated werewolf politics and an attempt to assassinate a leader using girls. I really did like this one and want to read more by this author.

Milk and Cookies by Rob Thurman is a story of dealing with a bully creatively, in a uniquely werewolf way. The twist caught me by surprise

Keeping Watch over his flock by Toni L P Kelner was a cool story about a boy finding his place in the pack and finding out more about himself.

Almost a 4 star set of stories but some of them just didn't work for me, some really worked for me though so overall an interesting set of stories. ( )