MY BIG FAT SUPERNATURAL WEDDING

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L.A. Banks, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P.N. Elrod, Esther M. Friesner, Lori Handeland and Susan Krinard ISBN: 0312343604 11/2006 PARANORMAL Publisher: ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN

Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis—and weddings An “ordinary” wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. What’s the seating plan when rival clans of werewolves and vampires meet under the same roof? How can a couple in the throes of love overcome traps set by feuding relatives—who are experts at voodoo? Will you have a good marriage if your high-seas wedding is held on a cursed ship? How do you deal with a wedding singer who’s just a little too good at impersonating Elvis? Shape-shifters, wizards, and magic, oh my!

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

MY BIG FAT SUPERNATURAL WEDDING is a compilation of stories written by several authors that all have a wedding or marriage theme to them. It is a fun, fast-paced, entertaining read that, for the most part, is quite good. All of the stories are in some way paranormal, or at least magical. The authors do a marvelous job of creating fanciful complete short stories within the small amount of pages allotted to them.

Sounds good, right? Well, it is, provided you skip the first story, or if you enlist the aid of an interpreter to translate the slang in it for you. I don't mean to pick on the author, but I honestly have no idea what that story is about because I don't know what the characters are saying! Normally, I am good with dialect, slang, whatever, so I am just going to chalk this one up to a case of "too much." I am all for authentic portrayals, re-enactments and the like, but that story gives me a headache.

Anyway, a few of my favorite authors contributed to this one (THANK YOU, LORI HANDELAND! for letting me visit with Will and Jesse again!!!), so I say it's worth the price. Just know that you can't judge the rest of the book by the first story.

Shannon Johnson