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Bezig met laden... Cry Your Way Homedoor Damien Angelica Walters
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I've enjoyed Walters' stories when I've come across them, so I was very happy to receive an entire collection of her work; unfortunately, I made the mistake of trying to read the book straight through, and it began to feel a bit monotonous. The stories are good, but I really should have dipped in and out of it instead.Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Cry Your Way Home is a collection of short dark, twisted, and haunting stories. While they are all well written most of them fell a little flat for me. They started off good but by the end they were underwhelming and not quite satisfying. There were a couple that really stood out and I enjoyed like The Judas Child, The Floating Girls, Take a Walk in the Night My Love and Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant's Tale (which was my favorite). So while I wouldn't exactly recommend it, it wasn't a total loss for me. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Just the way fairy tales should be written. All the stories were viscerally unsettling in their own ways, to the point where I wanted to read more but had to stop because I couldn't expect any of the short stories to spare me a gut-punch. More impressive, the stories had diverse narrative style! In particular my favorites were the amazing "Take a Walk in the Night, My Love" and "The Serial Killer's Astronaut Daughter" which were still different enough to be written by two separate authors.That being said, some of the stories missed their nexus of creepy/dark/unsettling for me. I found "Not my Circus, not my Monkeys: The Elephant's Tale" and "Umbilicus" were too obscure. They were well-written though, so consider it a matter of my tastes more than anything else. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Powerful, vivid stories about women dealing with horror, trauma or loss in a variety of real or fantasic situations. Walters is a compelling storyteller, and sucks you into each situation within the first half-page. Most of her stories here don't have tidy endings - they leave lingering feelings behind rather than any sense of closure or wrapped-up narrative. A couple of the pieces here didn't work quite as well for me - "S Is for Soliloquy" and "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" felt more familiar and well-trodden than the others - and her open-ended style might not be to everyone's taste, but the greatest compliment I can pay the others is that I was sorry when most of them finished. Well worth reading. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Once upon a time there was a monster. This is how they tell you the story starts. This is a lie."Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. DNA doesn't define us, gravity doesn't hold us, a home doesn't mean we belong. From circus tents to space stations, Damien Angelica Walters creates stories that are both achingly familiar and chillingly surreal. Within her second short story collection, she questions who the real monsters are, rips families apart and stitches them back together, and turns a cell phone into the sharpest of weapons.Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you turn the last page."Once upon a time there was a girl ..."Featuring the following works: "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw" "Deep Within the Marrow, Hidden in My Smile" "On the Other Side of the Door, Everything Changes" "This is the Way I Die" "The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind" "Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant's Tale" "The Judas Child" "S Is for Soliloquy" "The Floating Girls: A Documentary" "Take a Walk in the Night, My Love" "Falling Under, Through the Dark" "The Serial Killer's Astronaut Daughter" "Umbilicus" "A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take" "Little Girl Blue, Come Cry Your Way Home" "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" "In the Spaces Where You Once Lived". Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Luckily for me I picked this up at a time when I have had enough sappy happy holiday cheer. There is some general dark fiction, and stories that straddled the line between fantasy and horror, occasionally dipping a toe in each. I hate to use the word "Enjoyed" in this case so I will just say there is mighty fine writing here.
I received a complimentary copy for review. ( )