Pros: Gorgeous story with beautiful world background
Cons: Do try to read the series in order!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Review book courtesy of Penguin Group
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Lily Yu and Rule Turner are planning their wedding, but that’s going to have to take a back seat to safety when an old enemy of Lily’s grandmother turns up in town. Anyone who could possibly pose a threat to Lily’s grandmother is someone to take very seriously indeed, and he, or she, has already upended San Diego’s underworld. Meanwhile, it seems as though far too many people are unhappy about Lily and Rule’s engagement. She’s Chinese, he’s Lupi, an old flame of hers has put in an appearance, and it turns out that Lily has inherited some wild things from her legendary grandmother she didn’t even know about. Somehow Lily has to keep her ‘ordinary’ life together while saving her family, and all of San Diego, from the bad guys.
contains five novellas by different authors, all tales of “uncanny suspense and disquieting romance,” as the back of the book says. It includes stories set in the past, present, and future, with notes of horror, tragedy, and humor. The thing that links them all is a sense of something not-quite-right with the world.
