A review by rambleonrose
Such Violent Delights: A Holiday Paranormal Romance Anthology by D.D. Miers, R. Scarlett, Anne Malcom, S.L. Jennings, Amelia Hutchins, Stacey Marie Brown, Amo Jones, Graceley Knox, Alice K. Wayne, Jessica Florence, Chantal Fernando, Kim Loraine

1.0

If you want to write an anthology full of unfinished stories as a way to market yourself, fine. Do it, but don't try to sell it as completed stories. It's intentionally misleading, dishonest, and shows a lack of integrity. I pre-ordered this book and was very hopeful about finding some new authors to read, but after reading the submissions by two authors (unfinished stories) whom I already read religiously, I put the damn thing down in anger. I get marketing, I do. There is a lot of competition in indie publishing and you have to work hard to get, and keep readers.

But you know what pisses me off even more than the misleading unfinished stories? Is that they are hooks for series that these authors haven't even started writing! Seriously? That's over the top annoying. And then to use the charitable donation as a way to get your stupid little hooks to us? That's just fucking low. Please don't act like this was some altruistic move to help people in need. It was marketing, pure and simple. Crappy marketing, but marketing nonetheless.