It's My Birthday Too (Short Story from Many Bloody Returns)

[Priscellie]

I just noticed that "It's My Birthday Too" doesn't have its own stickied thread, whereas all the other short stories do! 

The blurb, from Amazon.com:

New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It's My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don't share their brotherly love.

MonstersAndCritics.com adds the following:

Fans of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files will enjoy further adventures of Harry the wizard and his apprentice Molly as they go up against a revengeful vampire of the Black Court in the suspenseful “It’s My Birthday, Too”.

And according to Fred (the tease!), it involves LARP.


Preorder here!  It's due in stores September 4th, and it's edited by Charlaine Harris.

[Heretic]

I just received my copy of Many Bloody Returns   {visualize a happy dance here} 

I wasn't expecting it until 9/4, so this is a treat!

[Priscellie]

Share!  How'd you get ahold of it so far in advance?  Did you get find it at a bookstore/online/elsewhere?

[Heretic]

I ordered it from Barnes & Noble on-line earlier this week.  When I got the notice that they were shipping it immediately, I was startled, but certainly not complaining!

As for sharing.....

Great story!  Cool action (I love the scene where Harry th .... uh, never mind), answers a few questions I've seen floating around this forum, a little character development - it's all good.

Yep, Harry is his usual snarky self.

[Katy]

I got a copy at a local Borders store last Saturday.  I was startled to see the books on the shelf, since they are usually very strict about the release dates there, but I was afraid to ask them about it for fear they'd realize the mistake and say I couldn't buy it after all!

And yup, you're gonna like the Harry story!  It's hot.  (And, for the Charlaine Harris and Kelley Armstrong fans on the board, their stories are terrific, too -- I haven't read the rest yet, since classes started this week and I've had to ration my reading severely.)

Katy

[Priscellie]

At the risk of being off-topic (bad moderator!):

I'm currently plowing through Charlaine's Sookie books, and I'm really enjoying them, but I'm still on the waiting list at the library for All Together Dead.  Is there anything in Charlaine's story that would spoil me for the events of that book?

[spikespiegel82]

See I'd read the Harry story, but I'm not interested in the other ones, so I couldn't possibly justify buying a collection of stories that I'd never read.  Money is too tight.  Which is why I didn't read the other short story either.  Wish I could though    If only I wasn't so cheap...

[Heretic]

At the risk of being off-topic (bad moderator!):

I'm currently plowing through Charlaine's Sookie books, and I'm really enjoying them, but I'm still on the waiting list at the library for All Together Dead.  Is there anything in Charlaine's story that would spoil me for the events of that book?

You'll be fine - I believe the Sookie story takes place between Dead to the World and Dead as a Doornail.  In case others are still reading through the Sookie books:
The story is set before Colonel Flood dies.

And it's a good story too!

[BigMama]

Priscellie, when you finish with Sookie, I highly recommend Lily (her "Shakespeare" series) and Harper (the "Grave" series). If you like Sookie, I guarantee you will like them all. Wonderful strong female characters. Can you tell I'm the fan club President? 

[LizW65]

At what point in the timeline is the Dresden story set?  Can you tell us without it being spoilery?