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cjdavey's review
4.0
Really good writing. To call this even a 'short story' is pushing it a bit; it's a single, beautiful picture. Takes just minutes to read. Certainly enough to motivate me to try her longer works.
geodora's review
3.0
"The holidays, time out of time. Mørketiden or Mōdraniht, Solstice or Soyal, Yaldā or Yule or the Cold Moon Dance, it doesn't matter what people call the turn of the year; it fills them with the drumbeat of expectancy. Even in cities a mammalian body can't escape the deep rhytms imposed by the solar cycle and reinforced by myth. Night would end. Light would come.
Daylight. Daybreak. Crack of dawn. You can tell a lot about a culture from its metaphors: the world is fragile, breakable, spillable as an egg. People felt it. Beyond the warmth and light cast by the holiday they sensed predators roaming the dark. It made people long to be with their own kind. Even those who were not usually lonely hungered to belong."
Daylight. Daybreak. Crack of dawn. You can tell a lot about a culture from its metaphors: the world is fragile, breakable, spillable as an egg. People felt it. Beyond the warmth and light cast by the holiday they sensed predators roaming the dark. It made people long to be with their own kind. Even those who were not usually lonely hungered to belong."
crunden's review
3.0
It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.
A good dark fantasy tale about predator and prey.
A good dark fantasy tale about predator and prey.
duplica123's review
3.0
A Tor.com short story
http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/04/cold-wind-nicola-griffith?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=tordotcom&utm_content=-na_readblog_blogpost&utm_campaign=tor.comoriginalfiction
http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/04/cold-wind-nicola-griffith?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=tordotcom&utm_content=-na_readblog_blogpost&utm_campaign=tor.comoriginalfiction
amyotheramy's review
3.0
She was here. It would go as it would.
Hunters in the city, a dance of predators and their prey.
(I probably would have rated this higher if the other two stories I read tonight weren't so excellent. See [b:Burnt Sugar|23568534|Burnt Sugar (Firebug, #0.5)|Lish McBride|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1416448005s/23568534.jpg|43167245] for more urban fantasy and [b:Ghosts and Empties|25902244|Ghosts and Empties|Lauren Groff|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1436801725s/25902244.jpg|45786152] for more just plain good.)
Hunters in the city, a dance of predators and their prey.
(I probably would have rated this higher if the other two stories I read tonight weren't so excellent. See [b:Burnt Sugar|23568534|Burnt Sugar (Firebug, #0.5)|Lish McBride|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1416448005s/23568534.jpg|43167245] for more urban fantasy and [b:Ghosts and Empties|25902244|Ghosts and Empties|Lauren Groff|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1436801725s/25902244.jpg|45786152] for more just plain good.)
eol's review
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
keu482's review
3.0
Another Tor.com short story.
I made the mistake of thinking the narrator was male for far too long and now I'm mad at myself. Neither of the named charaters are good people, but they are interesting and while the twist isn't that surprising I loved the imagery and lyrical choice of words (except for the sentence she uses to describe Guiness, i mean really?)
(no really, she wrote this: I savored the thrust of rusty-fist body through the velvet glove of foam, it's quite possibly the worst sentence I've ever read. It stands out so badly because the rest of her writing is good in the same way that sentence isn't)
I made the mistake of thinking the narrator was male for far too long and now I'm mad at myself. Neither of the named charaters are good people, but they are interesting and while the twist isn't that surprising I loved the imagery and lyrical choice of words (except for the sentence she uses to describe Guiness, i mean really?)
(no really, she wrote this: I savored the thrust of rusty-fist body through the velvet glove of foam, it's quite possibly the worst sentence I've ever read. It stands out so badly because the rest of her writing is good in the same way that sentence isn't)