Of Claws and Fangs by Faith Hunter – a Review

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Description:
Collected together for the first time, this volume contains shorter works featuring heroines Jane Yellowrock and Nell Ingram, as well as a host of other characters from the Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series. Faith Hunter is “an expert at creating worlds filled with intriguing supernatural elements and exciting scenarios”* and her skills are on full display in this collection. From a vampire-filled Halloween evening in New Orleans to the searing tale of how a certain were-leopard first got his spots, this collection has something for everyone, and each story is sure to put the super in supernatural.

Review:

Of Claws and Fangs by Faith Hunter is a collection of her shorter books (Jane Yellowrock/Soulwood), some which were on her site.  I am a big fan of all of Faith Hunter’s books, and I looked forward to reading these stories that I may have missed from her site, or I did not remember.  Happy to say I loved reading these stories.

Of Claws and Fangs is a wonderful Faith Hunter anthology, especially for long time fans, bringing back many memories of those stories we read before, as well as some other stories I never read (which may have been on her blog).  There are 18 short stories (one was fairly bigger) from her series, such as the awesome Jane Yellowrock series, and a few from her Soulwood series.  Besides spending time with Jane, we got looks at many of our favorites; Nell, Eli and Alex, Edmund, Leo, Bruiser, Brute, Molly and Angie, and the Everhearts, just to name a few.

If you are a fan of Faith Hunter, you need to read Of Claws and Fangs, as it was a terrific and entertaining to read.  Below is a table of contents of the stories listed.

Candy From a Vampire
Make It Snappy
It’s Just a Date
Life’s a Bitch and Then You Die
Black Friday Shopping
How Occam Got His Name
Shiloh and the Brick
Beast Hunts Vampire with Jane
Of Cats and Cars
Beast Hunts Pie-bald
Jane Tracks Down Miz (never published)

From Anthos:
Anzu, Duba, Beast
Eighteen Sixty
Wolves Howling in the Nights
Death and the Fashionista
My Dark Knight
Bound Into Darkness
The Ties That Bind