Reviews

Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw

annehalliwell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

horrorhussy's review

4.0

This was my first reading of Cassandra Khaw, and big oofff.

Their command of language is astounding, beautiful and unsettling.
These stories where perfectly creepy and held you in that unsettled atmosphere the entire time.
I love horror, for the way it can move your bodily emotion around, all while using strong connected emotions to heighten that fear. Khaw does this in spades!
Terrifying

I have another of hers on myself and I can not wait to fall into it!

anmariefweeks's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

mrsmand0's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Such a fun dark fantasy short story collection. I enjoyed every moment reading this book.

wlbolm's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

grvhppr's review

Only read the first story it was fine, but with the Stoker Awards being announced, I'm more keen to read other horror. 

almostqualified's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

howlinglibraries's review

 I hate to do it, but I've gotta put this one down. I love CK's writing so much typically, but something about these stories... for the most part, they haven't worked for me at all so far. I rarely DNF a short story collection since I like to give each story a chance, so I may give this one another try in the future. 

mistysbookspace's review

2.0

I've only read one other book by this author and I really enjoyed it so when Destiny listed this as one of the books she wanted to get through this year I jumped at the chance to read it with her because I was interested in reading more by this author. I didn't realize this was a collection of stories at first and unfortunately this one didn't work for me at all. 

I don't even know how to review this book. Honestly reading this made me feel like I was stupid because I just wasn't getting all the metaphors. Literally all but 4 of the stories went over my head completely and I can't even begin to tell you what I read because I have no freaking clue. Like I said I've read one other book by this author and that was Nothing But Blackened Teeth and I loved that one. Reading this book felt like I was reading a completely different author. I seem to be in the minority on this one so if you've been interested in this I do suggest you still give it a try. 

greader's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

3.5

Some great stories! And some kind of boring stories