The Department of Antiquities is in the market for people prepared to endure strange occurrences, fight unknown foes , and risk their lives on a regular basis. Be prepared to never look at life the same.This title is supposed to be a lead-in to an upcoming video game by giving backstories to various characters, but also be enjoyable to others. David Moore succeeds with the clutch of authors who provide a nice set of origin tales that entertain. Thanks Netgalley for the chance to read this title....

I thought this was interesting.

I don't know why there are two versions of this book in two places but one had good reviews and one has shitty, so let's hope the folks who like it come bump up this book.I also don't understand why people who didn't know what this book is (a history of a video game) are reading it. I hate it when people rate something badly because they didn't take the time to find out what it was. Too over the top? Well it is about a VIDEO GAME with SUPERNATURAL creatures. SMHRant over. Maybe. I liked the book...

I liked it less the more I read.

I received a free copy via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.Like all anthologies of short stories written by different authors some are far better than others.They were all enjoyable though.Hence giving 3 stars but maybe should be 3.5

Well I guess I was due another random choice of book and here it is. Now to start off I had never heard of the Strange Brigade let alone knew anything about it (the fact that its a 3rd person shooter computer game certainly was a surprise to me). It was more the fact that Guy Adams an author I am currently reading has a story included in this book was the reason it caught my eye.So what to say - okay without spoilers - the Strange Brigade is an ad hoc super secret organisation set around the beg...

This book is a tie in for the Strange Brigade game, which is a fun co-op shooter that throws back to old pulp novels with two-fisted heroes, cursed mummies, and over the top action. The book is a collection of short stories that show the origins for each of the playable characters. Some are really good, one in particular is really bad, and most are right in the middle. It was cool to see the game's universe expanded past skeletons and mummies, with a wide variety of supernatural creatures showin...

As a fan of the game, this was super fun to read! I really enjoyed reading all these different adventures but I just wish there was more. Half way through each story it just felt rushed, as though each author was only allowed 40 pages. I feel like these stories could have been so good if they were allowed just a little more. Still, I had fun and I just wanna know so much more about the wacky Strange Brigade!

Diverse stories. Some are better than others.Good introduction to the characters. Needs the narrator for some humour and to bridge the stories.

Full review here**I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review**The book kicks off with a bang, literally, with the story of Gracie Braithwaite, a young woman in England who goes to work in what she believes is a normal run of the mill factory, but in reality, is a den of human-skinning demons. So, she does what any sane person would do in that situation: blows the whole sucker up. Thus, her place in the Strange Brigade is solidified. After that, the stories...

Mathematically computed rating: 2.8875 stars.With stories by my boyfriend Jojo's daddy (aka Jonathan L. Howard) and my girlfriend Babylon Steel's mommy (aka Gaie Sebold), this collection should have been Slightly Very Good Material (SVGM™). Yeah, well, um, no.Moderately crushed I am, yes.What makes this even more moderately crushing is that the collection is a scrumptiously diverse and most wonderfully NOT Eurocentric feast. Which, you have to admit, is quite the deliciously refreshing combo. An...

Old School FunNormally a tie-in doesn't work very well if you've never played the tied-in video game. Here, though, we have an origin story prequel, so it predates the video game action and the book doesn't depend on knowing anything at all about the game beyond the fact that it involves a group of daredevil adventurers in a British Department of Antiquities who fight supernatural evil.Thought of, then, as a multicharacter anthology, with a different character featured in each story, and some ov...

Thank you to NetGalley and Rebellion Publishing - Abaddon Books for the digital copy of this galley.On August 28, 2018, the video game The Strange Brigade will be available. This book contains the stories (or mentions) of the adventurers who make up the Strange Brigade and what they were doing just before being recruited into that band of fighters of monsters and demons. Formed in England, probably during the reign of Queen Victoria, each recruit to DA-01 has a useful skill for the fights ahead....

I’d not heard of Strange Brigade before this, which I got for the Cassandra Khaw & Jonathan Howard stories. An enjoyable set of adventures, each focussed on a different character and how they joined the brigade.

Orignally posted at ragdollreads.co.uk Ragdoll Rating: 3.5/5 ButtonsRecommended For: People who have bought, or intend to by the game. People who like short adventure stories.About the BookThis book is a short story collection about the Strange Brigade and how its various members came to join it. The Strange Brigade is - if I've understood correctly - a secret branch of the British Empire that fights demons and investigates the paranormal.What I thoughtOverall, I quite like this book. More often...

I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't know the first thing about Strange Brigade, which makes me an odd choice to read a tie-in book . . . but I couldn't resist the concept of a Department of Antiquities that is tasked with confronting ancient and terrible evils.Fortunately, The True History of the Strange Brigade is more an origin story than a tie-in, so no prior knowledge of the franchise is required to enjoy it. David Thomas Moore has gathered an impressive array of authors, who have contribute...

This book was a collection of short stories. They are about the characters in a video game. So if you have no interest in the game it's really a strange read. The short stories were ok some were a little too much for me. I really didn't enjoy the book because I was unaware it was about the characters in a game.

An anthology of stories based around a secret-government-bureau team of adventurers dealing with Weird Stuff. This is actually a tie in, sort of supplying backstory to a video game (which I have never played), and it does slightly feel like that, in the sense that I am now waiting for the adventure to begin and to see where the characters go. Nevertheless, I think it works perfectly well as a story collection. I grabbed it because Cassandra Khaw and Jonathan L Howard are two of my favourite writ...

Indiana Jones, The Librarians, Warehouse 13...Dark and filled with adventure.Cannibalism, meat suits, demons, curses, and cat people. I am loving this read.8 bite sizes stories that you can finish in just one sitting.I don’t know anything about the video game, but the book is fantastic.It was definitely one of those “by the cover” reads. No regrets!