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mccanizales's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

hannahteel's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

imadeyouacookie's review against another edition

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dark sad slow-paced

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

2.5

Thought it would mostly be folklore or myths of indigenous peoples, instead, mostly just stories of horrible things that happened to people

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catseye's review against another edition

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Each short story was laid out for the reader. There was no working out nuances of themes, because honestly, there wasn't much nuance there. Because each story was less than 20 pages there wasn't much time to develop characters, plots, or themes. I just found everything on the nose, not scary, and a little boring.
If you had no knowledge of colonialism and Canadians history with Indigenous people, then maybe some things would be surprising or eye opening. But as someone with basic knowledge, I didn't get much out of this book. I found many of the stories not very well written (though some were well written).
I was hoping to feel the creep factor while reading these, but they were so heavy handed I just couldn't get into the scariness/creepiness of them.
I jumped to the back and read Limbs by Waubgeshib Rice and it was the best of the stories I read, a classic horror tale.
However it was not enough to make me want to finish the rest of the stories.
One plus was some of the indigenous folklore was cool.

churrocaitie's review against another edition

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dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

What a fun, scary book of short stories. Definitely not stuff I could read before bed, but had a blast picking this up.

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