Bewitched Bothered & Bevampyred

Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred

by Terey daly Ramin (Editor/Contributor), Gail Northman (Editor)

Welcome to Brokenoggin Falls, where the housewives are not only desperate, they're Witches! (And one of them might be a Harpy)
The spells cast by moonlight frequently go awry. And there are times when toads and Chihuahuas seem abundant as black flies in the summer, the dragons are a little touchy, the Forest Trolls are in danger of extinction from teeny-boppers, the Gryphons need help conceiving and...the scientist are crunchy and good with ketchup...

Brokenoggin Falls
Before-word (Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred) (2005) [ES] by Terese Ramin
The Legend of Braugh-Naughton (2005) [POEM] by Jennifer St. Giles
Naked Came the Vampyre (2005) [SF] by Terese Ramin
The Harpy in the Clock Tower (2005) [SF] by Rachel Carrington
The Witches of Brokenoggin & the Dead Who Love Them (2005) [SF] by Gena Showalter
Crunching Scientist, Hidden Dragon (2005) [SF] by Sophia Nash
How to Seduce an Amnesiac Vampyre (2005) [SF] by Kathryn Caskie
The Loch's Stressed Dragon's Half-Sister (2005) [SF] by Elizabeth Holcombe
Feed Your Head (2005) [SF] by Patricia Rice
A Spell of C.R.A.F.T. (2005) [SF] by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Night Mares (2005) [SF] by MaryJanice Davidson
Dancing in the Streak (2005) [SF] by Lynn Warren
X Marks the G-Spot (2005) [SF] by Shelly Laurenston
The Toad Prince (2005) [SF] by Terese Ramin
A Dance Through the Garden of Good And Evil (2005) [SF] by Susan Grant
The Skeletons in the Closet (2005) [SF] by Annihilation Jones and Leroy
A Dragon's Tale (2005) [SF] by Mary Jo Putney
LOF-T: ROGG 1 – Trolls Gone Wild (2005) [SF] by Linda Wisdom
Pieces of Destiny (2005) [SF] by Michelle Rowen
LOF-T: RROGG 2 – Sam's Repentance (2005) [SF] by Judi McCoy
Dorothea's Wizard (2005) [SF] by Jennifer St. Giles
Soulless from Seattle (2005) [SF] by Fiona MacLeod and Terese Ramin
Everybody Loves Dragons (2005) [ES] by Terey daly Ramin
"Flaming, Hot, and Bothered" (2005) [SF] by Sophia Nash
The Loch's Stressed Dragon's Half-Sister (2005) [SF] by Elizabeth Holcombe
Candy Cox and the Big Bad (Were)Wolf (2005) [SF] by P. C. Cast
Suzi Stiletto: Recovering Demon Slayer (2005) [SF] by Alyssa Day [only as by Alesia Holliday ]

Genres: Anthologies, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Ebooks

354 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Kaniac · Rating 3 out of 5]

What to say, what to say. Overall I liked this book but only because it was so ridiculous I couldn't stop laughing. It was a soap opera on crack and after a couple of minutes I went back for another fix after I put it aside to stop reading. I liked the characters I guess overall to a degree but there were too many to keep track of at any given time in all the different stories. I understand that will happen with 20 writers but it jumped from here, to there, to oh look a toad..... Never did fully understand what was up with the chihuahuas. I got it because of Mary Janice Davidson and Mary Jo Putney and will continue reading the series because I am hooked on the characters but honestly if I was warned before hand I probably wouldn't have bothered.

[Raina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was told that This book was published in a very limited run and then the publisher folded. After reading it I can see why. What a waste of time!

Now, I like PNR just as much as the next gal so I picked it up looking for some new authors. I thought that the concept of it being written to imitate in some ways the TV show Desperate Housewives set in a town that's full of the supernatural could be cute! Boy...was I wrong. It was AWFUL! Every story has the same basic plot. Older woman who hasn't had sex in a millennia or so just happens to meet some new supernatural being with whom to end the draught with. Ho. Hum. Been there....done that. Bought the t-shirt.

[Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, not great. Though the first 3 stories are in that first category. After that the stories got a lot better and held together, with a few exceptions. I'm glad I hung in. I liked the concept of a TV series-like set of short stories that were related to on another, though by different authors.

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was so confusing...but in a good way. It's a literary soap opera. Each chapter usually followed a new set of characters living in the enchanted town and eventually overlapped to make sense toward the end. It was fun trying to keep up with everyone's different stories.

Most "episodes" rated NC-17

[Shavonya · Rating 4 out of 5]

You you haven't read this book, goodluck. This book was published very limitedly and then the publisher folded. I was lucky enough to read when I worked at a book store. I thought it was light cute and funny and because of this book I discovered 2 or 3 authors that i'm still reading now.

[Goge (BARRONS) le Moning Maniac,]

Bad reviews but.... I Wanna Read it tho!!

Great authors I know and read/love: Gena Showalter; P. C. Cast; MaryJanice Davidson; Shelly Laurenston; Susan Grant; Judi McCoy

Funny titles and... I'm just intrigued, amused. Wanna read it and so I shall! We'll see if I like it:)

[TinaMarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Witches of Brokenoggin & the Dead Who Love Them by Gena Showalter - 3
Light fluffy reading. While there was nothing I could point to and say that was what was wrong about this story, I was very happy to be done with it. It came across as very surface reading, not depth.

[Edwina Book Anaconda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bewitching vampiric erotica.
'Nuff said.
;)

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read the first two stories and wasn't impressed.

[Krystl Louwagie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book of short stories, meant to be like a Desperate Housewives tv show in book form, except set in a town that's full of the super natural, like werewolves, vampires, witches, dragons, etc., etc. I bought it from the library book sale for my vampire collection. I didn't quite know that all the stories are written by romance writers.

It was AWFUL. Every story had the same basic plot. Older woman who hasn't had sex or good sex in a long time, some new person comes along with amazing sex, or something happens to relight their sex life with their husband. The book stole plots from Memento (at least it gives Memento credit). I'm keeping the book just for my Vampire collection, but there was only 2 stories that I was even remotely interested in, even those really weren't any good, just a bit more interesting. One where the town paster falls for a demon just kicked out of hell, one where a half succubus finds a half incubus (aw, they no longer kill people when they have sex, how sweet). There's a second one in the series, I don't think I'm interested. Although, maybe I pick it up from a library book sale for my collection anyway. Oy.

[melissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh. The intro pretty much turned me off of this. Read the set up poem, legend, which was OK, but only a couple of pages into the first act this didn't seem like anything I want to waste my time on. Sending it off to a new home.

[Debi Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

All stories were winners

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ditched it. Too far out of my genre pref. I chose it based on the author, rather than the story line.

[Jennybeast · Rating 1 out of 5]

annoying.

[Lynne · Rating 1 out of 5]

The stupidest book. I quit part way through because it was sooo ridiculous!

[Brainorgan]

Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred by Mary Jo Putney (2006)

[Shay]

'X Marks the G-Spot' By
Shelly Laurenston

[Aine]

Read:

the stories by PC Cast and MaryJanice Davidson

[Tami · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, silly fun.

[Di · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only read the Shelly Laurenston story. The Tail!!!!

[Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very disappointing.

[Kathy Chung · Rating 1 out of 5]

what plot? what story?

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love the author but the trouble I went through to get a copy of it really was not worth the read.