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riminireads's review
5.0
I love Freeman's anthologies and recommend them to anyone stuck in a reading slump or wants to explore more diverse authors. This was the first Freeman's I read back in 2016 and looking back now John Freeman has an absolute knack for picking upcoming exciting authors (killer list now). Beautiful, rich, diverse stories.
silvianotsylvia's review
5.0
Man, what a ride. Reading as traveling, really. 28 new, emerging, bold and wonderful writers, from 20 different countries, aged 25-70! If this is not diverse enough of an anthology, I don't know what is. I am always a fan of anthologies, I love to see and feel different styles once I turn the page onto a new story and I find it difficult to gather enough variety without it seeming too chaotic. In this sense, this collection is very well thought of. Of course, I gathered up some names to put on my to-read (evergrowing) list, such as Elaine Castillo, Mieko Kawakami, Heather O'Neill, Samanta Schweblin, Tania James, Sayaka Murata and Mariana Enriquez.
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A bit of a spoiler:
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For those wondering, I skipped the story about the dog - yeah, that one. I feel like this kind of explicit writing disturbs me to the core and I really can't deal with that right now. If there is special meaning or something deep about the characters I should understand or take away from stories like this, it never works out because my mind shuts down immediately at the first sign of distress. Call me hypocrite since I can read about violence on people (but even that takes me a long time and I skim through it, holding my breath) - fine, but reading explicit material about animals in pain is, to put it mildly, not my fucking cup of tea.
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A bit of a spoiler:
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For those wondering, I skipped the story about the dog - yeah, that one. I feel like this kind of explicit writing disturbs me to the core and I really can't deal with that right now. If there is special meaning or something deep about the characters I should understand or take away from stories like this, it never works out because my mind shuts down immediately at the first sign of distress. Call me hypocrite since I can read about violence on people (but even that takes me a long time and I skim through it, holding my breath) - fine, but reading explicit material about animals in pain is, to put it mildly, not my fucking cup of tea.
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