2.77k reviews for:

salt slow

Julia Armfield

4.0 AVERAGE

naldo_reads's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Violence

themoonmins's review against another edition

4.0

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wow!! okay wow!!

j_jreads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Kicking off spooky season/autumn with this wonderfully macabre collection of short stories. 

I’m not usually one for short story collections - I get too invested in a character/plot and want more. 

However, I loved Armfield’s writing - her words find a way to bury themselves under your skin. It’s beautiful and dark *insert Claire from Fleabag describing Finland in S2E1 here*. Definitely one I will re-read.

Reading this while on holiday in Cornwall, with the sea air, felt like kismet.

Favourite lines: 

The Collectables - “you’re just not the sum of your parts”
just casually getting me to think if Mary Shelley would be proud

Stop your women’s ears with wax - “We just want fans who follow us.” 
it gave me ‘Butter’ by Asako Yuzuki vibes

Cassandra After - “… I couldn’t talk to her just yet; I was sweeping the bones of a girl I loved off the kitchen floor.” 
this - I think my heart cracked a little bit, thanks Julia

holred's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Absolute stone cold banger. Gross, haunting, creepy. Occasionally it feels repetitive - there are certain phrases, occurrences that the author loves. But I still loved it.

ghoul_at_home's review against another edition

3.5

medium-paced

suzablam's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark reflective sad

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Took me a while to get into the individual stories, but I really liked the last two and ended up liking the collection as a whole more than I expected!

isawhit's review against another edition

4.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

mareru's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

twentyfourteeth's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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I think Julia Armfield might just be one of my favourite authors at the moment. Fell in love with ‘out wives under the sea’ and salt slow was just as weird, creepy, mysterious and wonderful

highvoltageline's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes