I do like a good werewolf story.

The good: most of the stories at least attempt to do more with the beast within genre conventions, albeit in a paint-by-numbers sort of way.The bad: they don't, for the most part, succeed at being anything more than that.The ugly: "Side Effects May Include" brims with reinvented Orientalism, while "Take Back the Night" saddles its lesbian character with penis envy, which is then symbolically linked to her new found sense of power as she wolfs out. Yay.The so dumb it's ridiculous: "The Pack and t...

I bought this one for the Carrie Vaughn story "Wild Ride." However, I've already read that one in Kitty's Greatest Hits. Oops. I was able to get into a few others and they were really good!Blended (CE Murphy)Oh how sweet the vengeance! This one was good. Marketa was a pup when her pack was hunted, she was the lone survivor. She was taken in by another werewolf and taught how to blend in as human. So she learns and bides her time. I loved the ending.Mongrel (Maria V Snyder)This one was very inter...

Anthology of offbeat werewolf transformation stories. There’s a few well-known authors, buts several of the authors are unknown, at least I couldn’t find anything else they wrote. I skimmed through the beginning of each story unless it caught my attention enough to read the rest of it. Several were thinly disguised preachy stories hoping to get their personal POV across. Why do authors think they can get away with this? This is escapism fiction. We want to be entertained not taught lessons. Plus...

I was only moved by maybe one or two of the stories in this collection- the rest of them were fairly bland.

A short story collection centered around a wolf transformation, aligned more closely to horror than urban fantasy. While some are inventive, many read like a short story workshop: "What if you mix werewolf with...?" Some of these are Very Serious Short Stories with Important Life Lessons. (Must outsider always equal woman/native/gay?) In the spirit of not taking myself too seriously (with apologies to Gail Ambrosia (http://gailambrosius.com/explore-flav...) story by story:Wild Ride: Hershey's da...

Fave stories:In Sheep's Clothing, by Molly TanzerGiselle, by Susan Palwick

Short stories about werewolves. It's always hit or miss with a short story anthology. I kept plodding along through this assortment, and enjoyed a couple of gems, but otherwise wasn't really my style. Oh well.

Werewolves on motorcycles, in suburbs, locked in the basement; family curses, aquired diseases, accidental side-effects—Running with the Pack offers up 22 werewolf stories from a variety of modern urban fantasy authors. Those offerings are plentiful and brief, and werewolves are an engaging base premise, and so the collection is more consumable than most short story anthologies. However, few of the stories stand out: there's a number which are decent but forgettable, just as many which are disap...

To be honest, I don't always get along very well with paranormal short story anthologies. Oftentimes, I pick them up due to an interest in a few of the contributing authors, but find the collection on a whole to be very uneven. This was not the case at all with Ekatrina Sedia's latest anthology, Running with the Pack, which focuses on werewolves. I picked it up due to interest in the stories by Carrie Vaughn, Marie Brennan, and Maria Snyder. What I got was a treasure trove of fantastically writt...

1. Wild Ride by Carrie Vaughn - 3/5 - Kinda random. (view spoiler)[TJ tests positive for HIV, which leads him to seek out Alex, a miraculous survivor of a motorcycle crash. For some reason, this causes Alex to recruit him into the pack on the promise of curing his HIV. TJ doesn't like the restrictions of being in a pack, and fights instincts to leave. He confirms he's now HIV negative. (hide spoiler)]2. Side-Effects May Include by Steve Duffy - 3/5 - Made no sense. (view spoiler)[A business man

This collection of werewolf-based short stories was enjoyable with some unique takes on the archetype however it needed to be spaced out with other readings in between as otherwise it was hard to enjoy each individual story without them all blurring together.

I know I read it years ago, I think I liked it at the time. Not feeling it at the moment, however.

Anthology. Average rating is 3.52 stars. There were a few I skipped because of violence against children, there were a few stinkers but quite a few good ones so worth the read. 1. Wild ride by Carrie Vaughn. A lonely man finds out he's got a horrible disease and discovers a way to get a cure. Then he has to either live the life that's expected or try to move on. Good story. 3-1/2 stars.2. Side-Effects May Include by Steve Duffy. A guy breaks his wisdom tooth on a business trip to China and after...

Although initially disappointed to discover the very first story was one I'd already read, and not even one of Vaughn's best, I soon got over it. The stories were incredibly varied, and despite normally expecting to dislike a few there was really only one that fell into this category for me. The rest ranged from interesting to excellent, some feeling very real.Some people might care to know that there are 2 stories which actively involve gay or lesbian relationships, but none of the stories are

It's werewolves. It has a Carrie Vaughn story. You bet I'm going to pick this one up.

This was a fun anthology of werewolf stories. I enjoyed almost all of them, especially:-Inside Out by Erzebet Yellowboy was my favourite. Great writing, fleshed out characters,unique premise. I want to know more!-The Garden, The Moon, the Wall by Amanda Downum. This felt like part of a series I'd love to read more of.-Gestella by Susan Palwick had great writing, unique premise, but too sad.-Blended by C.E. Murphy. Another unique idea and one I wanted more from.-Mongrel by Maria V. Snyder.-Deadfa...

I love collections like this because I often find new authors to try out. This is a good mix of different story telling styles; serious, silly, casual, formal, adult etc. I Especially enjoyed two of them. The Beautiful Gelreesh by Jeffrey Ford was sad in a beautiful way. In Sheep's Clothing by Molly Tanzer was especially hilarious to me in a messed up way. Gestella by Susan Palwick was personally triggering for me and I couldn't finish it. Inside Out by Erzebet Yellowboy had too much cruelty in

If you like werewolves, this is the book for you. Lots of great stories. My favorites were BLENDED by C. E Murphy and MONGREL by Maria V. Snyder.

Found this in the library catalogue and thought it looked interesting but I've decided to drop it after only a few stories. I liked the idea of new, interesting takes on werewolves outside what you normally find in urban fantasy and paranormal romance. These are just a little too weird or, in some cases, upsetting for me. Here are my thoughts on what I did read (with mentions of story elements):"Wild Ride" - Carrie Vaughn I liked this one but it left me wondering what the point was. That might j...