Thursday, May 29, 2014

Dangerous Women


Cover image for Dangerous women : original fiction by Jim Butcher, Diana Gabaldon, Lev Grossman, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Joe Abercrombie, Carrie Vaughn & many more ; edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois.Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin, 784 pages

Despite being listed as by George R. R. Martin, this is actually a collection of stories by a list of authors focused around the theme of dangerous women. I had initially picked up this book for the one short story by Martin, as it relates to his Songs of Ice and Fire series. As this story was the last one in the book I decided that I would read my way to it and completing the rest of the book would yield that prize.

While some of the stories start off a little slow for my liking there wasn’t a single bad one in the bunch. I do think that some stretched the meaning of dangerous though. This book covers a wide range of territory from middle ages to semi futuristic and from robbers to queens. It has murders, violence, action, and romance. Overall the book read quickly despite its size and I was able to add some more authors to my future reading list.  

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