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Shadowed Souls

By: Jim Butcher - editor, Kerrie L. Hughes - editor
Narrated by: Jim Butcher, Julia Whelan, Emily Rankin, Justine Eyre, David de Vries, Mia Barron, Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marnò, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews
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Summary

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil....

Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

In number-one New York Times best-selling author Jim Butcher's "Cold Case", Molly Carpenter - Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter Lady - must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you're a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad.

New York Times best-selling author Seanan McGuire's "Sleepover" finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything weird. They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie.

In New York Times best-selling Kevin J. Anderson's "Eye of Newt", Zombie PI Dan Shamble's latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner....

And New York Times best-selling author Rob Thurman's infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals with some overdue - and nightmarish - vengeance involving some quite nasty "Impossible Monsters".

Also includes stories by Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Erik Scott de Bie.

Full cast of narrators includes Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marno, Karissa Vacker, and Macleod Andrews.

©2016 Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (P)2016 Penguin Audio
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Seriously Good Listen

Loved all the stories, so different, characters so varied. Very well read by all the presenters. Totally recommended.

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Worth checking out

The first few stories were really good, then I lost interest. Dresden story worth the purchase, for fans

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hmmm

In all honesty, its not as bad as some reviews have led on. Yes it is a completely different read from "The Dresden Files" and there is no relevance to the story apart from a short snippet from Molly's prospective, also the usual narrator isnt reading these stories either, there different voices and actors that read the collection of short novels and that there all their own little slither of short supernatural stories or from their own series. Agreed, some of these stories were hard to get into or feel for the characters (and I admit I skipped 1 story in particular) but please go into this purchase knowing that it isnt a continuation from the "The Dresden Files" othereise youll be disappointed.

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Ok selection of fantasy.

Decent length stories, narrated fairly well but, as with any anthology, not all stories will appeal to everyone. I found with one or two of the stories my attention wandered as they did not engage me. Having said that none of the stories are badly written or narrated so I would recommend it as most people will find some stories are very much to their liking.

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Not Dresden, most decent, some disappointing.

Most of the stories were decent- engaging, interesting, had some original ideas and generally fun. However, others were just recycled ideas re-skinned into different stories with small changes and if I wasn't paintbrush in hand decorating for most of the listen I would have skipped.
If you're only in it for the Dresden story don't bother with downloading this- the story can be found in Book 15.5 'Brief cases'' so save your credit!

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only two stories where worth it

after the first story it kind of goes down hill with charactors i just couldnt care about in any way shape or form with a couple of them being able to guess the punch line before even getting there. save your money, i think this is truly sold on the fact that jim Butcher has a single story in it.

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Not A Dresden short story

The only story is about Molly Carpenter newly minted winter lady.

Calling it a Dresden series is basically lying.

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Lackluster and not a dresden files novel

First of the stories don't seem to fit the background. In some cases they are impossible in the storyline up to this point.

Even though some ideas are interesting this isn't a dresden files book and shouldn't be sold as such.

In addition the writing is mediocre at best. It actually felt like a chore to listen to these stories at times. It was a real disappointment when compared to all the good books in the series.

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Not a Dresden story

Other stories with a new voice. Doesn’t hit the same. One story about molly that isn’t great

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Just not worth the money

Got me really interested and hooked with the Molly story in the beginning and then it was just really disappointing... ended up not finishing it.

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