Finished My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon. This anthology features stories from nine popular fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, and Marjorie M. Liu.

One thing I like about anthologies is they give you a chance to try several new authors at once — and perhaps discover some writers you might not have read or found any other way. I’d never read Armstrong before, but I really enjoyed her werewolf story, Stalked, and plan to move her novel Bitten closer to the top of my TBR pile.

I also enjoyed Her Mother’s Daughter by P. N. Elrod. It reads like a classic detective noir story (love those!), except with a vampire as the put-upon gumshoe. And there’s a nice little twist at the very end I didn’t see coming.

But my favorite story, once again, was Roman Holiday or Spq-arrrrr by Rachel Caine. Caine brought back her pirate story characters Cecilia and Captain Liam Lockhart from the first anthology, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. This time, the newlywed couple have to face down a mutiny and ancient Roman pirate. I hope Caine writes a whole book about Cecilia and Liam someday. And I’m so buying some of her Weather Warden books to try.

To me, the weakest story was A Wulf in Groom’s Clothing by Ronda Thompson. It’s about an outdoors-loving, cursed werewolf who marries a bona fide city girl who’s never been hiking or fishing. Nothing really wrong with the story. I just thought the world building wasn’t quite as elaborate as the other stories, and the werewolf curse didn’t really seem to get resolved in the end.

But overall, I thought this collection was even better in the first one. There’s plenty here for fantasy fans to enjoy.

So, thumbs up.

Up next: Don’t Look Down by Suzanne Enoch.

What about you guys? Anyone read anything good lately? Share in the comments.