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Supernatural Streets
Supernatural Streets brings together 14 Urban Fantasy authors to explore mysteries with a touch of Magic. The collection includes stories of psychic FBI agents, werewolf detectives, monster hunters, and an ordinary cop just trying to survive when the ritual daggers come out. The anthology includes work by Dragon Award Finalist Declan Finn, Hugo Award nominated author Cedar Sanderson, best-selling authors Ryk E. Spoor and Julie Frost, and other fan-favorites and rising stars. Contributors Brena Bock Bokerah Brumley Mickey Dubrow (Allan Kemp) Declan Finn Julie Frost Amie Gibbons A. C. Haskins Paul Piatt J. F. Posthumus Rob Reed Sam Robb Ryk E. Spoor Cedar Sanderson Dawn Witzke
482 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2020
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November 12, 2020
Urban Fantasy is a genre that I do not read widely (I don’t read much fiction in general in recent years) but I do like it.
Supernatural here means each story has a supernatural element or elements- Faeries, Vampires, Werewolves, and so on. Streets indicate the main character in each story is some kind of detective- private investigator, police consultant, hard boiled crime fighter, FBI Agent, whatever.
This being an anthology, there are two potential problems- 1. the possibility of sameness in every story. This could be easily remedied by pausing between stories but I did not find this an issue as the stories were sequenced in a way, each felt unique from the previous. 2-in anthology like this, the author quickly needs to explain their world, introduce their characters and cover a lot of ground quickly. Again, no real barriers to enjoyment here.
I would consider this to be an anthology of ‘up and coming’ writers. That can be a misleading term, but based on the biographies in the back, I think it is fair. These are writers with some history but most are not well established. But they aren’t amateur either. Many of the writers have written a few books and there are a few bigger names like Declan Finn and Ryk E Spoor to balance it out.
For me, the variety was what really hooked me in. My favorites included the opening story by Sam Robb which felt like the most realistic of stories with a fantasy element dropped into the real world. Mickey DuBrow (Allan Kemp) had one of the more vivid stories which I would compare to True Blood in its exaggeration and big screen excitement. Then for my third pick, with a completely different spin, Paul Piatt’s Night Stockers was completely ridiculous, would be totally unfilmable, and was just great fun.
I picked this up as a relatively cheap e-book. There’s a lot to enjoy here. I don’t read Urban Fantasy which I know is extremely popular now, I know, but I did enjoy the book and it definitely made me nostalgic for all of the role playing games of my past.
Supernatural here means each story has a supernatural element or elements- Faeries, Vampires, Werewolves, and so on. Streets indicate the main character in each story is some kind of detective- private investigator, police consultant, hard boiled crime fighter, FBI Agent, whatever.
This being an anthology, there are two potential problems- 1. the possibility of sameness in every story. This could be easily remedied by pausing between stories but I did not find this an issue as the stories were sequenced in a way, each felt unique from the previous. 2-in anthology like this, the author quickly needs to explain their world, introduce their characters and cover a lot of ground quickly. Again, no real barriers to enjoyment here.
I would consider this to be an anthology of ‘up and coming’ writers. That can be a misleading term, but based on the biographies in the back, I think it is fair. These are writers with some history but most are not well established. But they aren’t amateur either. Many of the writers have written a few books and there are a few bigger names like Declan Finn and Ryk E Spoor to balance it out.
For me, the variety was what really hooked me in. My favorites included the opening story by Sam Robb which felt like the most realistic of stories with a fantasy element dropped into the real world. Mickey DuBrow (Allan Kemp) had one of the more vivid stories which I would compare to True Blood in its exaggeration and big screen excitement. Then for my third pick, with a completely different spin, Paul Piatt’s Night Stockers was completely ridiculous, would be totally unfilmable, and was just great fun.
I picked this up as a relatively cheap e-book. There’s a lot to enjoy here. I don’t read Urban Fantasy which I know is extremely popular now, I know, but I did enjoy the book and it definitely made me nostalgic for all of the role playing games of my past.
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August 24, 2020Good Reads!
One of the better anthology collections of the year! I love getting well-crafted Urban Fantasy prices. Standouts for me were Rob Reed, Sam Robb, and Declan Finn!
One of the better anthology collections of the year! I love getting well-crafted Urban Fantasy prices. Standouts for me were Rob Reed, Sam Robb, and Declan Finn!
September 15, 2020
What an enthralling collection! All fans of urban fantasy need to read this, particularly fans of Declan Finn, Ryk E. Spoor, Jim Butcher and Elliot James. I was particularly taken with the stories by Declan Finn and Ryk E. Spoor, since I am a fan of the Saint Tommy, NYPD series and Jason Wood in "Paradigms Lost"; those stories filled in a few holes in those that I had been wondering about. Imaginative, mind-provoking and more than a little shiver-inducing - an excellent anthology for the urban fantasy detective in us readers!
November 8, 2020
Hard for me to give an anthology a rating. Though I have come to the realization that I really really don't like anthologies. I need full length novels that I can actually sink my teeth into and come to live in the story.
November 11, 2020
Mostly good collection of stories, only 3 dnf's
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