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netslummer's review
4.0
Bleak Midwinter: Solstice Light is an anthology of short stories that, like the prior Bleak Midwinter book, share themes of cold and wilderness and darkness but tend to have less dreary endings. This anthology, while filled with small horrors and unsettling scenes, tends to lean towards a more hopeful feeling like the name of the collection suggests.
While I enjoyed this book almost as much as the first in the pair, I think I prefer the darker themes of The Longest Night a bit more. That being said I really enjoyed this book with some of my favorite stories in this collection including:
The Winter Mare - S.C. Fantozzi
Malediction - Selena Drake
The Stone Mother - Mary Rajotte
and my most favorite: The Warmth of Many Skins - Amanda M. Blake.
I definitely wish a few of the stories had been a tiny bit longer. In particular The Dormant Season by Jacqueline West was really enjoyable but ended far too soon for my liking.
Overall I think this collection is definitely worth a read and would recommend to fans of the first collection or short, dark, bleak horror.
Thank you to Quill and Crow Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
While I enjoyed this book almost as much as the first in the pair, I think I prefer the darker themes of The Longest Night a bit more. That being said I really enjoyed this book with some of my favorite stories in this collection including:
The Winter Mare - S.C. Fantozzi
Malediction - Selena Drake
The Stone Mother - Mary Rajotte
and my most favorite: The Warmth of Many Skins - Amanda M. Blake.
I definitely wish a few of the stories had been a tiny bit longer. In particular The Dormant Season by Jacqueline West was really enjoyable but ended far too soon for my liking.
Overall I think this collection is definitely worth a read and would recommend to fans of the first collection or short, dark, bleak horror.
Thank you to Quill and Crow Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
mea_91's review
4.0
4.5 stars! I enjoyed this Bleak Midwinter sibling from Quill & Crow and how the stories all tackled the theme differently from the other collection. While I slightly preferred how the theme was used in The Darkest Night stories, the stories of Solstice Light are equally haunting.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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