Finished Wild Thing, a paranormal anthology featuring four authors. I picked this one up at the Berkley author signing at RWA last year, and Marjorie M. Liu was gracious enough to autograph it for me before the signing started. If you’ve ever met Marjorie, you know she’s as nice as she is talenter. Here’s a brief recap of the stories:

Maggie Shayne pens a tale of a vet who can communicate with animals. Her gift makes her the target of a rapist, but luckily, there’s a sexy detective determined to keep her safe. Meljean Brook writes a story set in her Guardian universe, where a female Guardian (angel-like protector) teams up with a sexy vampire to stop a demon from opening a gate to hell.

Marjorie M. Liu introduces Maxine Kiss, the heroine of her new urban fantasy series (the first book comes out in June). Maxine is covered with living tattoos that transform into demons at night — but one man makes her long for a more normal life. Alyssa Day pens a tale in her Warriors of Poseidon universe, where one of the warriors cozies up to a female shape-shifter as he tries to make an alliance with her pack.

I’d never read Shayne or Day before, so this book was a good introduction to them. Overall, I liked Liu and Day’s stories the best. The world building and idea of living tattoos was really well done in Liu’s story, and her writing was as lush and descriptive as ever. Day’s story was a great mix of action-adventure and fun, and reminded me a lot of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series. I’ll probably pick up the first book in the Poseidon series and see how I like it.

Overall, a good anthology with a variety of styles to choose from. Thumbs up.

Up next: Something from the TBR pile