An excellent collection of short tales
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C. J. Box is the well-known author of the Joe Pickett stories, a 14-book series following the adventures of game warden Pickett in Wyoming as he tries to make a living and raise a family. The books focus on the outdoors, and the author does an excellent job of describing the action.

Shots Fired contains ten stories. Four of them are Joe Pickett stories. Three of the ten stories have never been published before. All of the stories are well written and enjoyable to read. Mr. Box does a good job. His characters are very realistic and seem to be normal people who end up in predicaments. The fun in the books is seeing how the characters find ways to resolve the situations they find themselves in.

If you like the Joe Pickett books, you will certainly enjoy the collection of short tales in Shots Fired.
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I enjoyed this collection of short stories, Stephen King's first.  The better stories in the batch were, "Jerusalem's Lot", "The Boogeyman", "Strawberry Spring", and "Children of the Corn".  It is clear from the stories that King is a natural writer of short fiction, which makes his transition to novels all the more impressive.  I'm looking forward to reading his other short fiction collections.
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This is a very good collection of short stories.

I especially appreciate the fact that the type is nice and sharp.

That's the way old books were printed, and for my old eyes it makes a big difference.

A very nice book.
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In the Walls and Other Stories by Daniel Powell is an excellent collection of short stories. There was not a poor story among them though my favorite may have been Aisle 12.

If you like chilling tales that can scare you but also make you think, I believe you will find this collection to your liking. The plots are interesting and maybe, just maybe, you will catch glimpses of yourself or someone you know in here.

Reviewed from a copy made available via LibraryThing.
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I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book. This is my honest review.  I don't read a lot of this type of books but, for the most part, it is a very good collection of short, fun stories that any reader of this type of genre should enjoy.  I liked most of them, some more than others but it's a varied collection from many new authors (to me) and I do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading these books.
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The book is a collection of short stories, presenting the characters of Rise Siren Five in more depth.

With Off-Worlders, S. S. Delauney has created an interesting collection of her Rise Siren Five characters. Off-Worlders is a quite entertaining, sometimes strange read. I loved some of the stories, liked some, did not like one of them at all; my rating for the collection is a solid 4-star-rating. The relevant characters are quite complex, the situations they find themselves in are spread throughout the universe. The reader experiences all kine of emotions; there is fun and magic, tragedy and hope, normal beings and higher instances.

Off-Worlders is a good read for fans of Rise Siren Five, for readers who like the science fiction genre per se and a broad variety of incredible beings in highly unusual surroundings.
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Short story anthologies are like buck shot someone once told me. Some stories will hit a few people, some will be bullseye, and some will miss people all together.

This collection was a bullseye for me.

The very first story is gripping and had me from the first page. The author writes a unique flavor of horror. This is not a splatter, blood, and guts collection of horror stories. Reading his work was more like watching an old Twilight Zone episode which was refreshing (I later found out in the author's notes, his stories have been characterized as before).

Each story has a steady flow that kept me engaged the whole read. I especially enjoyed the first story, "What Becomes God". I think it was the best of the collection.

When I finished, it reminded of me of the feeling I get when I am listening to the radio and a Led Zepplin song that I love and haven't heard in a while comes on. Excellent collection, highly recommended.
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This is a great collection of short stories. The works are well-written and draw you in quickly. I will reread these stories because they are interesting and provide a different look at dark topics.
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This is an interesting collection of eclectic short stories. There is a great variety of plots and they hold your interest. The endings often have surprising twists so you can't predict what is going to happen. Every story was very good and I didn't skip any of them. The author has a nice writing style.
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I've read some of these stories before but they're all good, a few of them are excellent. I would recommend this collection.
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This is a wonderful collection of short stories. I'm almost halfway through and haven't found one that I don't like. The one with the 2 guys camping is just beautiful. Very moving.

I'm actually reading this as slowly as I can because I don't want it to end! I feel as though each tale should be savoured and thought about.

The writing style is excellent with such depth and intensity that the stories, although short, feel as though they are full length. The description invoved is fabulous. This is a really good read and the length of the tales make them perfect for lunch times or coffee breaks.

Highly reccommend!
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Stephen King has distilled his brilliance as a storyteller into some fine tales in this collection of short stories.  While only a few could be considered in the "horror" category, most have the compassionate touches of former, more humane, works like "The Green Mile" and "Stand By Me." A can't-put-it-down read.
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I really enjoyed this collection of ten short stories and a novella.

All of the stories have their very different twists and turns, and there is a good variety of unexpected endings. Some of the stories are fillers in the life of Alan Banks, the fictional detective for whome Peter Robinson is most renowned. The settings are mainly Toronto and Yorkshire: places where the author has lived.

I particularly enjoyed "The Magic of your Touch" for its light supernatural element, and "Shadow on the Water," as there is a reflection of my own life in this one, and an example of how childhood events can affect adult behaviours.

My favourite of all of these stories is the title story, "The Price of Love." This brings out the deep feelings of a young lad whose father, a policeman, is murdered in the line of duty. The subsequent actions of the adults who surround his private and personal world are made in total ignorance of the effects that they are having on poor Tom's life.

I shan't say any more about any of the stories for fear of spoiling them for you.

Finally, and this is just the nicest touch imaginable for me, the author rounds of the book with his own short explanations of each of the stories. His personal thoughts and motivations for each of them, and insights into how they came about. These explanations just add an extra spark.

This book is well worth my five star rating.
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I really enjoyed this book!  I do not generally enjoy short stories, especially those with a religious bent.  I think that the character development is often set aside for plot considerations.  However, Jonathan Keats manages to make his readers very sympathetic to myriad characters while also giving each story a fairly simple plot and a moral to mull over for some time.  Also, you need not be Jewish or even religious to enjoy the book- I am neither and found it delightful.

I think this book is quick reading- not because it's light and fun, but because it is written very smoothly and well.  I finished it in only a few days, but I think there are some stories that I will go back to and read again and again.  My particular favorite was that of the golem- but they're all excellent.

I am not entirely sure what the need for the "Note from the Editors" at the end was- except perhaps to set up a plot for a sequel or two.  I think the note ended the book nicely, but it also gives the reader food for thought.

Overall, an excellent collection of short stories- I'm hopeful for a sequel or two relating the tales of the other 24 Lamedh-Vov!
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Excellent short mysteries stories-most of them deal with various art thefts, often in international settings. Some of them reminded me a bit of Stanley Ellin's short stories. If you liked early Hitchcock anthologies, you'll love these stories! One of them, the Monkey King, concerning the theft of a jade statue, was a short story I read in a long gone Hitchcock paperback many moons ago. I've searched for that story for years but didn't know the author, so i was delighted to encounter it here! A couple of tales are rather anticlimactic  but most are pretty good stories and you can't beat the price. I also recommend James Holding's Murder & Mayham Megapack. ( However, I was less enthused with The Library Fuzz Megapack which concerns the adventures of a Library Cop! )
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Great writer who tells compelling tales. I loved this collection of short stories.
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Excellent collection of short stories. Quick read but all the stories have an interesting perspective on relationships. This is the second book I have enjoyed by this author.