Naked City
Ratings7
Average rating3.4
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Ratings7
Average rating3.4
An anthology of gritty supernatural tales of magic and mischief by leading genre authors includes an original "Harry Dresden" by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs' story about a vampire who must save the Fae who lifted his curse, and Holly Black's short pieceabout a rock star who discovers a young woman's unnatural appetites.
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Like many anthologies, I found Naked City to be a mixed bag. Of the twenty short stories, I only liked/loved six. As a result, I would have rated this lower, except those six were well worth slogging through the others to read.
Originally posted at rebeccasreadingcorner.blog.
I'm not a Cubs fan, or much of a baseball fan for that matter. I was only vaguely familiar with the “Billy Goat Curse” that is the premise for this story.As a pre [b:Changes 6585201 Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) Jim Butcher https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1304027244s/6585201.jpg 6778696] story, things feel a bit more of “the old” Dresden. Dresden gets a case, and digs deeper into things. There is almost no action in this one though.Overall it's a decent, but unremarkable story. There are several other Dredsen short stories I think are much better. Hopefully Mr. Butcher will release a [b:Side Jobs 7779059 Side Jobs Stories From the Dresden Files (The Dresden Files, #12.5) Jim Butcher https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1269115846s/7779059.jpg 10351697] 2 that will include this and several other short stories he's written since then. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to read this story unless you can borrow [b:Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (Riverside Series) 9727729 Naked City Tales of Urban Fantasy (Riverside Series) (The Dresden Files #10.9) Ellen Datlow https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312232941s/9727729.jpg 14616573] from somewhere easily.
I liked the Patricia Briggs story, which is the reason I picked up this book. I liked a couple of the others. As for the rest of the book... let's just say I wasn't the target audience and leave it at that.
