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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

3 reviews

delaneybull's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

With the hard exception of Aloft I found the worlds really engaging and the characters interesting and complex. Loaded was A LOT and definitely the one that lingers for me. Short story is a good format for Joe Hill.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Gun violence, Grief, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Lesbophobia, Dementia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, and Suicide

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Addiction and Car accident

socialpsysteph's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is a collection for four novellas. I have learned I'm usually not a fan of short stories, but novellas are a sweet spot for me. I love the fast-paced rush of a novella, especially with horror. Of these stories, Rain was probably my favorite - this was a climate sci-fi horror where it starts to rain crystal needles and chaos ensues. This novella was basically perfect, totally didn't see the twists and turns coming. Both Snapshot and Aloft were fun and very different. They were creepy, eerie, and so much fun. Then there was Loaded. To me, this was not the type of horror I like; this was too realistic (this could, and has, happened) and it made me sad and anxious. Now, it was fantastically written, just not what I was looking for right now. Plenty of content warnings on this one!

This book counts for Popsugar 2021 for a book seen on someone else's shelf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Infidelity, Death, and Child death