Reviews - The Coiled Serpent

152 reviews for:

The Coiled Serpent

Camilla Grudova

3.58 AVERAGE

fizzywaterpal's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

joeday2712's review against another edition

2.0

Note to self: if a short story collection is described as “surreal”, that usually means “nonsensical”

lostcupofstars's review against another edition

3.0

This was really gross. I found a few of the stories interesting but overall they seemed to fall short. I thought the title story was the most boring.

teresa0623's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

I think Brandon Taylor said it best on the back of this book, saying something along the lines "This book is for the sickos"....truer words have never been spoken.
Every single story in this collection was weird or odd but utterly captivating. I couldn't put it down, literally read it in one sitting because I needed to know where Camilla Grudova was going to take me. Between the poison garden that a woman makes to help the general public with their problems, to the men that believe they will reach a whole new level of enlightenment if they don't cum and the house full of girls/women who have stopped getting their periods....Grudova has written a truly original collection of short stories that will take you to the brink of your sanity.
Thanks to The Unnamed Press for the ARC!