Tales of the Otherworld
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- ISBN13: 9780553807882
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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New York Times bestselling leader Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong’s most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light.
Have you ever wondered how lone wolf Clayton Danvers finally got bitten by the last thing he ever expected: like? Or how the hot-blooded terrible-girl witch Eve Levine managed to ensnare the cold, ruthless corporate sorcerer Kristof Nast in one of the Otherworld’s most unlikely pairings? Would you like to be a glide on the wall at the wedding of Lucas Cortez and Paige Winterbourne as their eminently practical plans are upended by their well-meaning friends? Or tag along with Lucas and Paige as they investigate a gruesome crime that looks to be the work of a rogue vampire?
Now devotees of the Otherworld can share these special moments with some of their favorite characters—as well as learning deeper insights into the lives of some of the lesser-known players. But even readers new to the
Otherworld universe will find much to like in these seven tales of friendship, adventure, and enduring romance. For when the superhuman men and women of the Otherworld set their minds to a task, they do so with fierce passion and an entire sense of purpose that make them, in the end, very much human.
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I really loved reading more on my favorite characters. As usual, Armstrong left me wanting more. I can pick up one of her books and read straight through until the end. Her writing just draws you in. I reflect it’s a fantastic buy but only if you have read her additional books.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The second Otherworld fleeting tale collection (see Men of Otherworld) is a superb compilation that enhances knowledge of characters in the saga. As stated by Kelley Armstrong in the Introduction to the eight tale anthology, “Beginnings” and “The Case of El Chapacabra” were written previously and placed on the leader’s website. In “Rebirth”, Aaron learns of his vampire bloodline. “Bewitched” half-demon Eve and corporate sorcerer Kristof prove opposites attract. Logan Jonson seeks his “Birthright” when at eighteen he is about to meet his father Jeremy Danvers and unwittingly the pack for the first time. Elena of “Bitten” fame tells of her “Beginnings”. The wedding of the year between Lucas Cortez and Paige Winterbourne brings “Expectations” to fans who know everything will go incorrect. In “Ghost” the house seems empty with Elena and Clay gone but Daniel threatens his ex- pack mates. Three weeks and counting down to the nuptials, but the engaged couple feel as if they are going through “Wedding Bell Hell” with the slow countdown. In “The Case of El Chapacabra”, Lucas and Paige investigate murder. These are terrific entries, but only fans of the Otherworld series will appreciate them as, like Ms. Armstrong has done on-line, they fill gaps in the series.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a collection of tales about the folks in the “Women of the Otherworld” series. They occupy many of the characters such as Aaron and Cassandra (vampires), a prequel to Bitten with Elena and Clay, several tales with Eve and a couple with Lucas and Page. The first 3 tales are shorts and the rest novellas. The one covering Lucas’ and Pages wedding is pretty amusing. All but the last are prior to the current time line of the series and make a excellent introduction to the series. The last is about Lucas and Page’s business and ties up some potential loose ends. All have brilliant characters and a are very well written.
This is a bit chopped up but still a brilliant read.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
`Tales of the Otherworld’ is a collection of fleeting tales and novellas set in Armstrong’s `Women of the Otherworld’ series. All of these fleeting tales were initially e-serials, available for free on Armstrong’s website as a sort of `gift’ to her fans.
Fans aren’t disgruntled by the fact that these previously free tales are no longer available online – because (as Armstrong says in her leader’s introduction) after she published her e-serials the number 1. fan question was `when will they be available in book form?’. Well, that time has finally arrived. And Armstrong’s even gone so far as to donate the proceeds of `Tales’ to the World Literacy of Canada – a nonprofit volunteer organization. Wow. As if fans needed another reason to heap praise on this legendary paranormal leader…
`Tales of the Otherworld’ is a collection of 8 fleeting tales featuring some beloved character, and a few secondary ones. Only 1 fleeting tale is original, and never before been available for download.
`Rebirth’ is the tale of Aaron, and his transition from human to vampire.
`Bewitched’ is the new tale in the collection, and is all about Eve Levine (Savannah’s mother). The tale is a `prologue’ of sorts, recounting how Eve met and became lover to Kristof Nast.
`Birthright’ is the back-tale to a deceased werewolf pack member. It clarifies how Logan learned his werewolf heritage and journeyed to Stonehaven to come face-to-face with his father for the first time.
`Expectations’ follows Lucas Cortez in an early investigation of his.
`Ghosts’ is another time-filler, set during the timeline of `Bitten’ when Jeremy is left alone at Stonehaven.
`Wedding Bell Hell’ is a tale that fills in the timeline gaps between books, by telling the tale of Lucas Cortez and Paige Winterbourne’s wedding
`The Case of The El Chupacabra’ is a Lucas and Paige murder-mystery investigation.
All of the tales are wonderful. Of course they are when written by the masterful Kelley Armstrong and set in her colourful `Otherworld’ universe. A lot of them are filling in the gaps and fleshing out tales that were previously referenced in the `Otherworld’ novels, but only in passing.
It’s one of the wonderful things about the `Otherworld’ series; the narrators and characters change in each book, but when a narrator picks up the thread of their tale they don’t get bogged down in recounting the missing months or years. It means that the series permanently moves at a swift, energetic pace, because Armstrong isn’t concerned with giving every minute detail of her character’s goings on… but it also means there are some gaps that fans want filled. Some tales that we miss out on and really want to be told. Well, `Tales’ scratches that itch – well and truly.
My favourite fleeting tale was `Beginnings’ – it’s the prequel to Elena and Clay’s romance… the tale of how they met.
Elena is my favourite narrator, and Elena/Clay are one of my all-time favourite Urban Fantasy couplings. I absolutely loved getting the back-tale to their tale.
Clay is teaching anthropology at the University of Toronto where Elena is studying television journalism. From their first `encounter’, it becomes clear that Clay and his wolf are intrigued by Elena… she’s not like additional flirty, vapid co-eds. She’s smart, tenacious and not worried to stare Clay down. For him, Elena is the first female he’s ever had an interest in. Hell, she’s the first human he’s ever had an interest in.
Clay is a rare werewolf who thrives on his wolf-scenery and instinct. He understands his beast better than his humanity, and as such he’s never been one for slaking carnal lust or one-night-stands. In Elena he sees a right mate.
From Elena, readers are offered a perspective on her first real healthy adult relationship. Elena’s character history is reasonably dark and sad; she was passed around from foster home to foster home, where she was repeatedly sexually abused. It’s a history that Armstrong recently addressed in `Frostbitten’, but is even further developed in `Beginnings’, adding more layers to Elena’s character.
Ultimately though, `Beginnings’ is completely romantic. Elena and Clay are one H-O-T couple who steam up the page in their `Otherworld’ novels. Armstrong certainly communicates that lust in `Beginnings’, but it’s a slow burn from first meeting, to tentative friendship, budding relationship and then full-blown romance. And there’s a real element of forbidden like to them too – since werewolf pack law forbids any werewolf from entering into a long-term relationship.
`Beginnings’ is a very fleshed out, microcosm of a tale. Elena and Clay both narrate, which is wonderful. Fans get rare insight into Clay’s thinking – particularly his choice (calculated or otherwise) to bite Elena and turn her into a werewolf… another issue that has recently been discussed between them in `Frostbitten’, but now holds more weight because of Clay’s point of view in `Beginnings’.
I loved this collection of fleeting tales. It doesn’t feel like a mishmashed, haphazard collection, hastily thrown together… rather, all of the tales in `Tales’ offer new perspectives and insights into characters and side-tales. It is a very cohesive, layered collection that sheds new light on the `Otherworld’ universe.
If you are a `Women of the Otherworld’ fan, you MUST give this collection a read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I must first say that I am a fantastic fan of Kelley Armstong, I like her characters, her plots, and her writing style. With Tales of the Otherworld, like her previous anthology for charity, Men of the Otherworld, Armstrong is giving her readers more glimpses into the lives of characters we like from her series. This anthology includes: Rebirth (the tale of how Aaron became a vampire), Bewitched (the tale of how Eve and Kristof Nast got together), Birthright (about how Logan learned his werewolf ancestry), Beginnings (how Elena and Clay got together), Expectations (a tale of an early investigation by Lucas), Ghosts (this takes place during Bitten, when Jeremy sends Elena and Clay to Toronto and is left at Stonehaven), Wedding Bell Hell (Paige and Lucas’s wedding), and The Case of El Chupacabra (a case Lucas and Paige investigate at the behest of Sean Nast). Some of these tales Armstrong had posted on her website for fan consumption, but I had not read Bewitched or The Case of El Chupacabra before, which makes me pretty sure they’re groundbreaking new. Even though I had read the others before, when I got the book I reread them all and loved it immensely!
Many of the details in these tales have been referenced in the novels, and these fill in the gaps in reader knowledge. Rebirth was my least favourite, that not to say I didn’t like it, but I was not as intrigued as I was by the others. Cassandra and Aaron are fantastic characters, but I liked them more in El Chupacabra than I do in this tale. Bewitched made me like Eve more than I have in Haunted and Angelic, and will make everyone sad we didn’t get to see Kristof more before he died. Birthright was a sad one, simply because we know how small time Logan had with the Pack, but I loved seeing Clay and Jeremy from an outsider’s perspective. Beginnings is wonderful, I loved reading about Clay and Elena’s early relationship. We are agreed chapters in both of their perspectives, so that the readers have a very excellent understanding of what is going through their minds. Expectations was fun, the reader meets Lucas a few years before he is introduced in Dime Store Magic. He meets (or encounters) Eve, which is referenced in DSM. He is such a likeable character, and this tale just furthers that. Ghosts was reasonably sad, and made me like Jeremy even more. It also gives more information about what happened to Elena when she escaped soon after Clay bit her. Wedding Bell Hell was fun to read and had nearly all of the characters (well, the likeable ones) from the novels. Lucas’s mother is introduced and she is a lovely character of whom I want to see more. The Case of El Chupacabra deals with Sean Nast coming to terms with his homosexuality (and really makes me hope he pops up in Savannah’s books) and also clarifies how Paige and Lucas came to own their office, which is first introduced in No Humans Involved.
I would recommend Tales to any fan of the series, it’s quick to read and you’re guaranteed to delight in it! Plus, all the proceeds go to charity, how could it get better?
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5