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kjulie's review
3.0
I would have rated this collection of short stories higher if I liked the horror genre depicted through the writings of these Winnipeg authors. Quality writing, creepy and disturbing content.
gailbird's review
2.0
Curiosity. Crime. Cold. Chills. Winnipeg.
Winnipeg disrupts many things as it disrupted my alliterative first line.
I found this book to be hit-and-miss, as is per usual with a book of short stories by multiple authors on the loosely similar theme of the weirdness that is Winnipeg. Not that a book on that subject is usual. I found the constant change of authorship to be distracting, as some of the writing styles weren't all that polished or to my taste. Kind of like Winnipeg. All in all, it was interesting, some of the stories stuck with you, and others faded or were frankly sickening in their desperate attempts to be edgy. Kind of like Winnipeg. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, but I lent it to my sister. That's contradictory. Kind of like Winnipeg. After some of the stories, you might wonder if there was a point. Kind of like Winnipeg.
Winnipeg disrupts many things as it disrupted my alliterative first line.
I found this book to be hit-and-miss, as is per usual with a book of short stories by multiple authors on the loosely similar theme of the weirdness that is Winnipeg. Not that a book on that subject is usual. I found the constant change of authorship to be distracting, as some of the writing styles weren't all that polished or to my taste. Kind of like Winnipeg. All in all, it was interesting, some of the stories stuck with you, and others faded or were frankly sickening in their desperate attempts to be edgy. Kind of like Winnipeg. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, but I lent it to my sister. That's contradictory. Kind of like Winnipeg. After some of the stories, you might wonder if there was a point. Kind of like Winnipeg.
tregina's review
4.0
I was deeply impressed by the quality of fiction in this anthology, which was consistently high. Maybe I felt it was more so because the vast majority of stories were definitely to my taste, but there wasn't a dud in the bunch. I picked up the book because of the setting, because there is a certain thrill to recognising bits and pieces of a place you know, but it just ended up being so much more than that. Winnipeg IS strange and a little gothic and these stories captured that often without even naming it. And I have to say, that preface is one of the most bleak and perfect things I've ever read about the city.
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