From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework, listeners will revel in the many twists and turns of fortune in these fantastical fairy tales and lush parables. Even hardened vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake gets blindsided by the disturbing motives of her clients in the new "Those Who Seek Forgiveness" and in "The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death".

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8 hours and 19 minutes
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Laurell K. Hamilton
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January 12, 2021
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Listening Length	8 hours and 19 minutes
Author	Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrator	Kimberly Alexis, Holter Graham
Audible.com Release Date	January 12, 2021
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B089B7B6GH
Best Sellers Rank	#22,969 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #45 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Audible Books & Originals) #89 in Fiction Short Stories #120 in Fantasy Anthologies

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ohmyhellohi

only read it for Anita

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2022

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I don’t really have much interest in her other work unless it’s Meredith Gentry. So I read this for the two stories. Some of the others were ok. But short stories ultra short stories just aren’t my jam

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The Ribbon Marker

Insight Into the Creation of the Anita Blake World

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2015

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For the purposes of my Anita Blake Book Challenge, I only reviewed the three Anita Blake related short stories that are part of this collection.

Strange Candy gives us three brief glimpses into the wonderful world of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. The introductions that accompany each of the chapters gave us a glimpse into Laurell K. Hamilton’s creative process. We get to understand what inspired her to write about Anita and the many different directions she has taken the series.

The first story, Those Who Seek Forgiveness, showed the birth of the Anita Blake character: a mere animator (zombie raiser). I love the story because it showed how simple Anita’s life would've been had she not been seduced by Jean Claude. I would use the term “normal”, but as the story shows, Anita’s job as an animator comes with its own inherent risks. In someway, the story actually acts as an introduction to how Anita met the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team squad. I could just see Dolph and Zebrowski coming to interview her on what happened in the cemetery, and then asking her, “Hey since you’re so good with the weird, can you help us with this case?” I love how Laurell K. Hamilton has kept shots of pure animator-Anita throughout the series. We get to see Anita dealing with clients who lie about their true motivations for having a zombie raised, or the different reasons for having zombies raised.

See the rest of this review at: https://theribbonmarker.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/book-review-strange-candy-by-laurell-k-hamilton/

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HRW

I got a randomly signed copy?!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2021

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I purchased this book 2 years ago, and today I was rearranging my books. I couldn't figure out where this book fit in the order so I opened it to the beginning and found Laurell K. Hamilton's signature!! What an awesome suprise!!

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Rebecca L. Walker

Fun and Funny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2006

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This is a collection of short stories, discarded chapters/story lines from other books, etc...

They are very entertaining, well written, and a few just totally cracked me up. (But then I have a mother who would hire cherubs too - if they were real! Sorry not going to tell you about the story in the book relating to that comment - it would spoil it for those who haven't read this yet & those who have read it will know what I mean.)

It's also a great book if you are very busy and don't have time to get involved in a story. If you just have the time for a chapter or two now and then this is perfect because that is all the longer these stories tend to be. Very entertaining.

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Uncle SAM

A collection of a very good writer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2020

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This is the first I've read of Laurell Hamilton's works other than the Anita Blake stories that I've been reading for years from the very beginning. It shows what a master of words she is writing in different types of stories. This collection is well worth your time to introduce you to her talent.

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A Henri

Thoroughly fascinating and mostly fun!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2016

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When I discovered this book was a compilation of Laurell K. Hamilton's stories mostly other than from Anita Blake's world, I was interested. By the time I finished the first my mind was happily engaged. I'd already read the final story, which was an Anita story (and one that I still found good reading a second time), but I truly enjoyed every story especially the two with Leech. The story about Jasmine was a little too dark for me, but still good reading. A very worthwhile purchase that displays Ms. Hamilton's talented writing and wonderfully weird imagination.

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Nathaniel B.

Specially fantastical and right down Ravenloft's alley. Loved them all.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2021

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I liked every short story and the voices telling them. The stories kept my attention start to finish.

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Cacey Kennedy

The woman can write, too bad we don't see more

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2016

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One I'm a fan of both LKH's series. I caught the Anita Blake series early on, before sex was ever an issue. And I don't really care that they've gone the direction they have. I do care about the balance between crime/police work, supernatural world, relationships, and sex.
I like the Merry series too.

But this book shows you how good a writer LKH actually is, and it's a side we never get to see, which is our loss, and I think to her detriment.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 6, 2016

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The Rowan

Bitter Candy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 8, 2006

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Although I am a big fan of Laurell Hamilton, this book was bitter stuff. It was a compilation of several older rejected/unfinished stories from earlier years that were probably re-edited, along with author chapter intros. The stories were fine; if not quite up to present day writing standards of Hamilton they were still fun to read (though maybe not at Hard Cover prices). But the Anita Blake-like voice of the author intros explaining how she would like to hunt down the original editor who refused her and how wrong they were was a bit of a turn off. It is usually interesting to hear the back-story of how a young writer climbs the ladder of success, but these intros form a mean, somewhat spiteful/look at me now diatribe that becomes a bit tired. I could have easily done without the bitter candy.

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Anita Blake where are you?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 2, 2021

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This book has other authors stories in it, small bit has to do with Anita..so not worth the money

Sarlissia

Die neuen Seiten der Laurell K. Hamilton

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 20, 2006

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Dieses Buch bietet dem Leser eine Reihe von Kurzgeschichten, die nicht alle etwas mit Anita Blake aus der Hauptserie von Laurell K. Hamilton zu tun haben. Daher ist es auch für Leser geeignet, die Antia und ihre Welt nicht kennen.

Insgesamt sind die Geschichten alle in einem übernatürlichen Rahmen angesiedelt, haben aber nicht alle etwas mit Vampiren oder Werwölfen zu tun. Die Spannbreite ist groß und wahrscheinlich ist auch für jeden etwas dabei.

Insgesamt hat das Buch 4 Sterne verdient, da die Geschichten zwar alle interessant und abwechslungsreich sind, das absolute Highlight aber leider nicht dabei ist.

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Tania

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 18, 2018

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huh ok i guess

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