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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

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tey_lynn's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A

4.75

I really enjoyed the vast array of themes and subjects this collection included. Every story had such interesting premises. I also appreciated that Blackness was the default. It was so nice to read such a diverse and creative collection of stories and be able to see myself and community in them. 
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sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due is an anthology of short horror and thriller stories, it's Due's first published book in 7 years and it marks a wonderful return for the author. 
My only complaint is that the short stories are too short and they leave me wanting more, but that's the point of a short story. 

My favorite short stories in this book were; Haint in the Window, a few of The Gracetown Stories, Ghost Ship, Shopping Day, and The Biographer.

I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5
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halfass_reviewer's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I enjoyed about 50% of the stories collected here in 'The Wishing Pool'. It seemed like the ones I loved were way too short and the ones I could've done without dragged for hours. Almost all of the stories left me confused at the end except for maybe one or two. Some confused me from beginning to end and caused me to even reread from the beginning thinking I missed vital information for the story.  I get this was supposed to be a collection of short stories, but again someone of the stories could've been cut to make others just a little bit longer. All in all, this was a good collection of stories. What I did love about this collection though was every story was connected in some way (mainly by this imagery city in Florida) but also by the ghosts that haunted people, by the plague that changed the world as we know it, by the way, humanity loves and fights and hates no matter the state of the world. Actually, I think that was the best part of the collection. The connectivity of everything. 
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