The first time I heard about this anthology, I admit that I just passed it by. While I like zombies & unicorns, I'm not especially fond of either creature. Unicorns are usually for little girls & zombies? Well, let's just say that zombie movies always give me nightmares. I've been watching the anthology rake in some pretty decent reviews, so finally I surrendered & gave it a try. For the most part, this is a decent enough anthology. 
 I'll admit it openly- I prefer the unicorn stories over the zombie ones in this. That's not because I have zombie nightmares but because the unicorn stories were the ones who best broke the stereotypes & cliches held by others. The zombie ones were well done for the most part but in the end most of them did the whole "lumbering zombies try to eat people" thing. I'll admit though, my favorite story in the anthology (Children of the Revolution) was a zombie story, though. My second favorite had to have been The Care & Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn, which blasted all of the preconceived notions of unicorns out of the water & introduced me to a whole new series of books. 
 Unfortunately, the audio version of this isn't really all that great. It does help as far as inflections go, but the quality of the voice acting differs dramatically from story to story. If I really didn't know any better, I'd have assumed that almost all of the readers were completely new to the business. Some of them do a decent job, but many of them tend to be a little bland when it comes to adapting characters & such. A good voice acting job can make almost any book great, but a bland or bad one can really hurt the story. I really recommend that if you're curious about the anthology, you pick up the paper version rather than the audio one. 
 (Audio CD provided by Amazon Vine)