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Shadowed Souls

By: Jim Butcher - editor, Kerrie L. Hughes - editor
Narrated by: Jim Butcher, Julia Whelan, Emily Rankin, Justine Eyre, David de Vries, Mia Barron, Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marnò, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews
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In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil....

Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

In number-one New York Times best-selling author Jim Butcher's "Cold Case", Molly Carpenter - Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter Lady - must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you're a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad.

New York Times best-selling author Seanan McGuire's "Sleepover" finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything weird. They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie.

In New York Times best-selling Kevin J. Anderson's "Eye of Newt", Zombie PI Dan Shamble's latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner....

And New York Times best-selling author Rob Thurman's infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals with some overdue - and nightmarish - vengeance involving some quite nasty "Impossible Monsters".

Also includes stories by Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Erik Scott de Bie.

Full cast of narrators includes Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marno, Karissa Vacker, and Macleod Andrews.

©2016 Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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good and meh

the short story kicking off the anthology is pretty revealing about Molly's new gig. The rest of the anthology held less interest for me. there may be another gem or two in the rough.. but don't expect to be stunned.

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Cover is a little misleading at first glance

I was looking at Jim Butcher books and saw this one. Thought it was something I was missing or added to for the Harry Dresden files. It was Not...the one short story from Jim in here was in his book "Brief Cases" so I already heard it...

All the other stories in this book were ok, but not what I was looking for.

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Average

Purchased to hear the Dresden story. The others were just a bonus. Some of them were fine, several were boring.

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Shadowed Souls

Really loved this anthologies of short stories regarding those things most normal souls don't talk about --i.e. witches, wizards, demons, werewolves, vampires and every other creature in the 'dark' worlds. I believe so I enjoyed immensely.

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some were awesome, some not so much.

loved the Jim Butcher and Thea Harrison some of the others were just not my taste, but i am sure someone out there likes Zombie detectives!

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series of short stories

some of these are amazing, others are just ok, the performances are fantastic. dont buy if your just wanting more dresdeb files, buy if you like the modern fantasy theme.

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bought it for Dresden but....

Cold Case is in brief cases which I own. the rest of the book was good.

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Chapter 6

Gentlemen, I know you have to narrate women's dialogue. Just lighten up and we'll get it. Don't squeak, and don't do what he did in ch 6. Maybe I'm spoiled by listening to some great narrators, like the others on this book.

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A Few Good Stories

I bought this book to hear the one featuring Molly Carpenter, and I’m glad I did. I also liked Peacock In Hell. Did not love the rest of the stories.

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If you're looking for Dresden, don't bother…

Personally, I thought this was going to be another version of book 11.5. Meaning a bunch of well written short stories that give us a good look at the "between the book " moments of the series that we all love. The first story, written by Butcher, was exactly that. The rest of the stories save one or two were just mediocre. I gave this review a story star for each story I actually liked.

Bottom line, give this one a skip and go look on the Dresden wiki for the story details.

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