June's Challenge - Part 2

Title: Big Guns out of Uniform

Author: Sherilyn Kenyon, Liz Carlyle, Nicole Camden

Year published: 2004

Why did you get this book: My mind does not work like a steel trap anymore. It was either Jay or CW who really liked this one and I can’t remember who. Maybe it was both. I normally don't read anthologies, but this one was highly recommended so I thought I'd give it a try

Did you like the cover: not particularly

Did you enjoy the Book? It’s an anthology. Two of the stories I really enjoyed, the third one I found rather – well - stupid

Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? I’ve read Kenyon and Carlyle before and I think this was Camden’s first book. Two of them I’ll continue to read – the third no.

Are you keeping it or passing it on? I think I’ll keep it.

Anything Else By now you’re probably wondering which ones I liked and which one I didn’t really care for. I thought Nicole Camden’s entry was grand! And this is why either CW or Jay recommended it. Last time I heard she hadn’t found a publisher and I’m thinking what is wrong with these publishers? This is a great story, a lot different from what I thought it would be when I read the storyline. I thought it would be kind of sad that the heroine couldn’t recognize faces and it would be a more poignant story. Instead the heroine was strong and the book was steamy. I didn’t even mind it being told in the first person.

I also thoroughly enjoyed Liz Carlyle’s entry. If she ever writes a full-length contemporary, I’ll be getting a copy.

And then we come to Sherilyn Kenyon’s story (this is the order I read them – back to front). I thought it was kind of – well – dorky and it didn’t impress me at all. Once yet again, I think she sacrificed the current story to set up characters for future books. I gave up both her personna’s a while ago, mainly for that reason and this one doesn’t make me want to go back.

'til later