If you've learned anything about me, it's that I will not pass up a dark fairytale reimagining. I don't know why I love them so much. Probably because I cut my teeth on Grimm fairytales. I find that reimaginings can be really good, or really, really bad. There's really not much in between, at least for me.

So what's so great about this one?

A Bad Breed brings us to the Carpathian mountains where gruesome killings have occurred near a Romanian village. Is it a beast? Is it a man? Both? What starts out as a mystery quickly morphs into something else —a Beauty and the Beast scenario with a twist set in Victorian times.

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Did you read that blurb? Go and read it again. I'll wait.

Ok, 27th CENTURY POST-APOCALYPTIC SCOTLAND. Yes, that is correct. I stress that because For King and Country reads like it's medieval times. It's not and it's easily forgotten while you are reading. While I wasn't really startled, I did go "huh?" a time or two.
So now you know and knowing's half the battle. Now on to the review!

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This gorgeous collection of dark and tangled tales is for the lover of the strangely beautiful. Each short story is disquieting yet bizarrely poetic. Releasing the imagination, this compilation of weird fiction blends horror, fantasy, and magical realism into stories that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always unnerving.

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There's something intriguing and yet disturbing about Andi. Even from the first pages as we see Andi taking excruciating care to raise moths and harvest their wings after their deaths to craft her girlfriend a set of her own beautiful wings, you can see that something just doesn't click the same way with Andi. While she sees the beauty in the wings and believes it to be a perfect labouriously planned gift to show her love, Luna sees dead bugs as most people would.

Andi soon starts obsessing over the vultures that circle near her place. How free the birds are from the restraints that humans put upon themselves. What it must be to be one, flying free above, with no other thoughts than to eat and devour. What carrion must taste like.

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The Toll begins in Staywater, Georgia in the garden of Daisy Spratford and her cousin Claire at a house named Hazelhurst. They are strange old birds. Daisy with her gardening spade intermittently stabbing insects or maybe voles or mice along with the garden soil. Claire with her unceasing knitting. Daisy and Claire are godmothers to Cameron Spratford, a bored seventeen year old who is used to the complexities and strangeness of his godmothers. We then jump to an unhappy couple on a swamp seeing honeymoon, when something strange occurs and the wife disappears.

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I love when a book sneaks up on you and completely smacks you upside the head. While Fortuna Sworn's cover is beautiful, it doesn't cry out urban fantasy. I was expecting something more along the lines of adventure or maybe even epic fantasy. What I discovered blew me away! I loved every second and I'm so, so sad that the next book in the series isn't readily available. Like I want to get my grubby little hands on it Right. This. Second.

Fortuna Sworn is a Nightmare. Yes, that's a capital N. Able to unearth the fears of others simply by touch, she is a rarity hiding in plain sight. Captured one night by goblins and taken to be sold on the black market, she is aided in escaping her captors by a faerie. But what is the price for his assistance? Soon sucked into the world of the Unseelie where no one can be trusted and nothing is as it seems, Fortuna has to beat the faeries at their own game in order to survive.

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DNF for me. While I've loved the authors' other works, I just don't think I'm a steampunk fan.

You might think given that cover that you are getting ready to read a sci-fi apocalyptic alien invasion story...and you are, except Aliens and Ice Cream is much more than that. I wouldn't call this one on the sci-fi either. More like sci-fi lite. Part horror, part thriller, with a good dose of domestic tragedy, the heart of this survival story is a coming of age tale. It's more about the interpersonal relationships than it is about aliens.

Set in the midst of a neighborhood cookout, the story really begins like any day in any town, USA. Oh sure, there's some drama with certain neighbors, but who doesn't have that neighbor that they just don't care for? While we are all worried about who's having an affair with who, and whether that cute girl has figured out who is crushing on her, out of the blue comes...well, aliens. They quickly decimate the neighborhood, turning that cookout into a crispy critter human BBQ. Only there's a catch. Anyone "inside" is unnoticeable to the alien pods stationed outside. The rules are pretty simple. Stay inside. Stay alive. But as we've frequently learned, there's always someone willing to overlook the rules.

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