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wearepublic's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
4.5
kelsieleblanc's review against another edition
3.5
Part 1: The House
Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights - 3.75
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House - 4
My House is Out Where the Lights End - 3
Sleep, You Blacked Eyed Pig, Fall into a Deep Pit of Ghosts - 5
Girls are Always Hungry When all the Men are Bite Size - 5
Birds Fell From the Sky and Each One Spoke in Your Voice - 5
The City is Full of Opportunities and Full of Dogs - 3.75
Part 2: The Child
My Body Cannot Forget Your Body - 3.25
Stranger Blood is Sweeter - 3
Good Good Good, Nice Nice Nice - 2
The Only Time I Think of You is All the Time - 4.5
We Can Make Something Grow Between the Mushrooms and the Snow - 4.25
Half Sick of Shadows - 4.25
The Only Thing I Can’t Tell You is Why - 3.75
Part 3: The Past
I’ll Eat You Up I Love You So - 3
The World’s More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand - 2
Sleep Long, Sleep Tight, it is Best to Wake Up Late - 2.75
Exquisite Corpse - 3.5
Sweeter Than the Tongue I Remember - 4.25
Watch the Wall, My Darling, While the Gentlemen Go By - 4
Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights - 3.75
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House - 4
My House is Out Where the Lights End - 3
Sleep, You Blacked Eyed Pig, Fall into a Deep Pit of Ghosts - 5
Girls are Always Hungry When all the Men are Bite Size - 5
Birds Fell From the Sky and Each One Spoke in Your Voice - 5
The City is Full of Opportunities and Full of Dogs - 3.75
Part 2: The Child
My Body Cannot Forget Your Body - 3.25
Stranger Blood is Sweeter - 3
Good Good Good, Nice Nice Nice - 2
The Only Time I Think of You is All the Time - 4.5
We Can Make Something Grow Between the Mushrooms and the Snow - 4.25
Half Sick of Shadows - 4.25
The Only Thing I Can’t Tell You is Why - 3.75
Part 3: The Past
I’ll Eat You Up I Love You So - 3
The World’s More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand - 2
Sleep Long, Sleep Tight, it is Best to Wake Up Late - 2.75
Exquisite Corpse - 3.5
Sweeter Than the Tongue I Remember - 4.25
Watch the Wall, My Darling, While the Gentlemen Go By - 4
gemrox's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.0
lucyabilene's review against another edition
5.0
I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something; I just don’t know what it is yet.
But also.
This work I’m doing, this dragging up of my worst fears. I don’t know what it’s doing to me. Maybe I’m looking for something – for someone – to keep me safe. To say that I’m safe, even if it’s not true.
We tell ourselves stories, we stoke our fears, we keep them burning. For what? What do we expect to find there inside?
What are we all doing to ourselves?
Logan's prose is as beautiful as ever as we are gently lead through a multitude of horrors. Many of these are rather mundane horrors, made horrific through poetic surreality and an overall sense of uneasiness. Darkly whimsical and almost delicately unnerving, some settle awkwardly in the reader's stomach, while others weave nightmares as thick as blankets - but not ones you'd want to hide under in the dark. There's a strong sense of bleakness I haven't felt from Logan's prior works - having reread this collection multiple times, I'm still left unsettled in a way I can't quite describe. That being said, in some ways it's comforting to see those ever-present fears we face as women validated as true horrors. Be warned though - the last in the collection is a wonderfully written onslaught of the fears in prior stories.
I finished this collection with a sinking feeling. These are certainly stories that linger on the mind. If I had to pick favourites, I'd go with Birds Fell From the Sky and Each One Spoke in Your Voice and Half Sick Of Shadows - both very eerie in two very different ways.
5/5, will be scaring myself to sleep again.
But also.
This work I’m doing, this dragging up of my worst fears. I don’t know what it’s doing to me. Maybe I’m looking for something – for someone – to keep me safe. To say that I’m safe, even if it’s not true.
We tell ourselves stories, we stoke our fears, we keep them burning. For what? What do we expect to find there inside?
What are we all doing to ourselves?
Logan's prose is as beautiful as ever as we are gently lead through a multitude of horrors. Many of these are rather mundane horrors, made horrific through poetic surreality and an overall sense of uneasiness. Darkly whimsical and almost delicately unnerving, some settle awkwardly in the reader's stomach, while others weave nightmares as thick as blankets - but not ones you'd want to hide under in the dark. There's a strong sense of bleakness I haven't felt from Logan's prior works - having reread this collection multiple times, I'm still left unsettled in a way I can't quite describe. That being said, in some ways it's comforting to see those ever-present fears we face as women validated as true horrors. Be warned though - the last in the collection is a wonderfully written onslaught of the fears in prior stories.
I finished this collection with a sinking feeling. These are certainly stories that linger on the mind. If I had to pick favourites, I'd go with Birds Fell From the Sky and Each One Spoke in Your Voice and Half Sick Of Shadows - both very eerie in two very different ways.
5/5, will be scaring myself to sleep again.
kokechii's review against another edition
2.0
I skimmed through this so fast...? It was so much less than what I expected, sadly. Some nice lines to remember but altogether just not there for me.
mehsi's review against another edition
5.0
HOLY WOW this was pretty amazing! Twisty and dark, surreal and creepy, gothic and spooky. YAS! I had my eyes on this one some time ago and finally one of my libraries had it in their collection! This book features one big overarching story (how the author (or whoever is the narrator there) goes to Iceland and the things she experiences there, loneliness but also creepy things) and short stories in various themes. The stories are weird, surreal, and at times I just went WTF while reading or when I reached the ending. While I loved the book in overall, some of the stories just went too weird/too far/or featured themes I just wasn't comfortable with, so I am rating it 4.5 stars. Which is still fantastic of course. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone.
katyab's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic. Not a single bad story. Dark, engrossing, heartbreaking, and terrifying.
amiebrad_'s review against another edition
3.0
The writing was nice and atmospheric, but I was left feeling a bit ‘huh?’ at the end of some of the stories.