Review: Bright Lights, Dead City (A Sampler of Urban Fantasy and Horror)
Now, I'm normally not the type of person who reads samples of books. I don't want to read just the first chapter, because then if I want to read the rest of it, I have to buy the book then because I want to read it then. My wallet does not approve. For some reason, however, I picked up Bright Lights, Dead City even though I knew it was a sampler. It just called to me. It wanted me. And now it wants my money.
Demons, Magic, Vampires, Zombies, plus even the traditional "Selling Your Soul" in a slightly non-traditional manner, this book is a collection of everything popular right now. You want a zombie? Got 'em. You want Demons and Hell? You can purchase that here. You want sparkly-vampires? Get the hell off my blog. Ok, so we had everything EXCEPT sparkly vampires. VAMPIRES DON'T SPARKLE IN SUNLIGHT, THEY BURN!!
Ok, sorry... I'm done ranting and lets get back to this book. Yes, there are lots of good stories that are being added to my To Be Read list. Especially albino bikers and government conspiracies. See, I told you that we have everything. And no, the albino biker doesn't sparkle. He may be a vampire though... if you want to fine out, I guess you had better read They Thirst. I'll leave the rest of the books in this collection up to your imagination, though I imagine that the book pages will speak for themselves. Toward that goal, I will list the books and the authors that these samples are taken from:
Snake Agent by Liz Williams
Mortality Bridge by Steven R. Boyett
Night Magic by Thomas Tryon
Live Girls by Ray Garton
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
V-Wars by Jonathan Maberry
Monster Island by David Wellington
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
NOTE: I read this book because it was available to read through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I probably would have read it anyway. While I'm not sure that any of these books are on my horizon at the moment, they seemed to be the start of some great stories that I will have to come back to revisit.
