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jfin54's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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plxtoprojector's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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

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toffishay's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

What a wonderfully strange collection of stories! I enjoyed reading these real-stories with varying levels of fantastical elements. They felt both grounded and other-worldly, feeling like real versions of our messed up world and messed up lives, in the most interesting possible way. I got something out of each story; none felt weak to me. My absolute favorite was "Returning", and I also really enjoyed "Los Angeles", "G", "Yeti Lovemaking", and "Office Hours." If you are looking for similar vibes, I might recommend Temporary by Hilary Lechter.

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valent1ne's review against another edition

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3.75

very strange & very fascinating

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kaylasbewks's review against another edition

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challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

stars ,, 4.0
cawpile ,, 8.14

i actually loved this, even if it took me a minute to wrap my head around some of the overarching metaphors, the writing was gorgeous 'nd i'll definitely be checking out 'severance' by the same author. :) none of the stories really fell flat to me either, i definitely had my favourites, those being 'the office', 'peking duck' & 'tomorrow' but all of them were great. not being too detailed in this rvw because there's just ,, so much going on.

boobclub pick with mari !!

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clovetra's review against another edition

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challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

i went in thinking i was gonna love this book. and my main criticism was that i was just bored.
reading this i fully understand why people would love this! i just did not like the writing style at all. and i don't even mean all the speculative fiction. the voice used just didn't vibe with me. it felt very soulless and made me bored. but i did want to see what happened so this is why i did not dnf (also i didn't want any dnfs for 2023 lol don't ask me why) (its probably my autism)
i found it overall incredibly hard to connect with the writing, and not many of the stories were memorable to me.
now a big issue i could've possible had with this book is that this is very. ummm. Smart. writing. and i read this when i had covid! so i may have simply been too dumb to comprehend this and im not even joking bro covid gives me worms for brains.
i found this hard to rank too! like some stories i loved and some i wanted to claw my eyes out because of boredom. in the end i decided to just average out my scores per story but i did round down because ummmmm i wanted to. so lets delve into the stories individually !
los angeles: ok lowkey an odd way to start an anthology! um i kind of enjoyed this one? i liked how it ties into the next one but. the ending is weird. i also did not get what metaphor this is supposed to be! like i couldn't tell if she actually had 100 boyfriends living with her or if she was just a bit insane. did have a bit of a fun time though i won't lie. 2/5
oranges: this one fades into the background for me. i feel like the overall meaning is a bit clearer, as is the protag's voice. i cannot remember anything remarkable about this except where she enters the house. 1/5
g: so cute! this one actually had my attention, as i could empathise with the narrator, but yet again i have no idea what happens at the end lmao. could be my covid brain forgetting what i previously read, could be because my brain thought it wasn't important. the world will never know. 3/5
yeti lovemaking: easily one of the best in this anthology. so insane. balls to the wall core. i love the tenderness displayed and also just how insane this concept is. 4/5
returning: umm this was crazy! i love how a random country was made up i think that's so silly in a good way. anyways i like the interpersonal conflict, as well as the small exerpts from the in universe book. 3/5
office hours: ehh. it was a story. i didn't really find anything to enjoy in this. i think this is just a personal taste thing here, as i could see how this would be considered amazing. i kind of didn't like the protagonist, and not in a "love to hate" way but in a "ur boring" way. oops. 2/5
peking duck: ugh this was great. i forgot i was reading in this one. no comments. 5/5
tomorrow:aaaannnddd im bored again. i did like the dystopian-reality-core, but im sorry the arm really freaked me the fuck out. i could NOT get over the arm. also, with the other stories the ambiguous endings were chill! this ending just annoyed me ngl. i honestly think this should've been moved to the middle as for me, it ruins the pacing of the stories, and probably flows better next to g. but that's just me also shoving the stories i didn't like into one place. also i didn't write this so i should shut the fuck up. anyways personally this is a 2/5.
um i kind of want to read Severance because I've heard such good shit about it!!!! but i also heard good shit bout this and i didn't particularly live laugh love so. we'll see.
anyways much love clover-nation. and ling ma. mainly ling ma im so sorry my love

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applesodaperson's review

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medium-paced

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

2.75

Yeah this book really just didn’t speak to me. I ended up skimming half the stories because they were either so boring and forgettable, or confusing . I expected this book to be really good, but I felt like it had nothing to say really, and the short stories felt underwhelming, undeveloped, and disjointed. Los Angeles and Oranges were forgettable, which was not a good sign for the rest of the book. G was the most interesting story, with an interesting premise, and was definitely my favorite out of all of them. The ending was very sad though. Yeti Lovemaking started off so strong, with a cool premise, but right as it got interesting, it just ended. It was so abrupt and disappointing. Returning just had way too much going on, with too many plot lines for such a short story. I don’t even remember Office Hours honestly. Peking Duck was okay, and I liked the immigrant experience aspect, but the rest was forgettable. And yeah I don’t even remember Tomorrow, I think I just skimmed it to get the book over with. So yeah this book had pretty much every element of poorly done short story collections in my opinion. Very disappointed and I wish I didn’t read it.
Read from the BYU library.

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