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mariahaskins's review
5.0
Lisa L. Hannett’s new short story collection Songs For Dark Seasons takes the reader on an unnerving journey to places, and into lives, that gleam and shimmer with beauty and horror, desire and sorrow. Dark, strange currents run deep beneath the thin veneer of the regular, everyday world here, and all that strangeness from beneath and beyond keeps breaking through the surface.
At first glance, the stories seem to take place in the world we know in something close to the present day, but in every tale, Hannett peels back the familiar to reveal the profoundly unsettling and dangerous magic hidden in the towns and villages, in the trees and forests, and in the people who live and die there.
This visceral quality of Hannett’s fiction, the unflinching way she digs into relationships and family bonds, and the many reasons people do what they do, and become what they are, is one of the reasons I love her stories so much. This is no shiny-smooth fantasy realm. Instead, there is grit and sweat and blood, guts and sinew too, in all these tales.
Full review: https://mariahaskins.com/2020/04/25/book-review-songs-for-dark-seasons-by-lisa-l-hannett/
At first glance, the stories seem to take place in the world we know in something close to the present day, but in every tale, Hannett peels back the familiar to reveal the profoundly unsettling and dangerous magic hidden in the towns and villages, in the trees and forests, and in the people who live and die there.
This visceral quality of Hannett’s fiction, the unflinching way she digs into relationships and family bonds, and the many reasons people do what they do, and become what they are, is one of the reasons I love her stories so much. This is no shiny-smooth fantasy realm. Instead, there is grit and sweat and blood, guts and sinew too, in all these tales.
Full review: https://mariahaskins.com/2020/04/25/book-review-songs-for-dark-seasons-by-lisa-l-hannett/
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