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Cynthia Armistead (17 KP) rated The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance (Otherworld Stories) in Books

Mar 1, 2018

I'm extremely surprised by how much I enjoyed this anthology! I picked it up intending to just read the stories by authors I know I like—Kelley Armstrong, Ilona Andrews, Carrie Vaughn, Holly Lisle, Jeaniene Frost, Maria V. Snyder. I had never heard of some of the other authors. A few names I remembered seeing in other anthologies and not enjoying their work.

I did, however, deliberately put myself in a tolerant mindset: this is a book of romance stories. It wouldn't be fair to judge them as anything else.

That worked rather better than it has in the past. I still got a little annoyed at having so much of each story dedicated to couples (and all het/mono couples, at that!) rather than some intriguing world ideas, but managed to stay on track.

In the end, I only skipped one story—I just don't like the Weather Wardens stuff at all. I found a couple of others substandard, but all in all, Telep chose very well. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys paranormal romance (maybe even those who usually stick to just romance), and most urban fantasy fans.

Kudos

Everealm (Everealm, #1)

J.D. Wright

8.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Breestlin cannot escape her destiny to become ruler of her father's kingdom, but she never planned...

Adult Fantasy Romance

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao

7.5 (4 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is...

Fantasy

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Vengeance of She (1968) in Movies

Feb 26, 2018 (Updated Feb 26, 2018)

Bargain basement Hammer fantasy sequel manages to ditch almost everything that gave the original film its class. Plot is basically a role-reversal of the original film; Richardson's character has gone mad (we are invited to infer) and regressed to the personality of his previous incarnation (film doesn't actually make sense otherwise); awaits the arrival of the reincarnation of Ursula Andress (not that Berova looks that much like her); cult of sorcerers offer to speed her arrival in return for the secret of immortality.

Basically just quite pedestrian and dull, with lots of messing about on a rich man's yacht that doesn't do a great deal to advance the plot. Some potentially interesting ideas are ignored in favour of potboiler romance and fantasy melodrama. Production values basically scream that the movie was made on a very low budget. Andre Morell is the best thing in it, and he's not in it all that much.