Many Bloody Returns vs The Crystal Shard: Which Should You Read?

Many Bloody Returns Charlaine Harris · 2007 ★★★★☆ 3.7 355 pages · ≈ 6 h 34 m · Moderate

Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never…

The Crystal Shard R. A. Salvatore · 1988 ★★★★☆ 4.3 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

“When the wizards' caravan from the Hosttower of the Arcane saw the snow-capped peak of Kelvin's Cairn rising from the flat horizon, they were more than a little relieved.”

Isolated in the barren stretches of Icewind Dale the villages of Ten-Towns come under attack by a tribe of barbarians. In the midst of battle a young barbarian named Wulfgar ends up owing five years of his life to a…