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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Wie "Everything Under", haar debuutroman, gelezen heeft, vindt ook hier in deze verhalen de bevreemdende, behekste sfeer terug die eigen is aan Daisy Johnson. De link met de dierenwereld - een soms fabelachtige, mythische wereld - is nooit ver weg. Het mistige, natte veenland als ideaal decor voor nachtmerries... Leuk dat je hier en daar inspiratiebronnen terugvindt voor haar latere roman. Laat je onderdompelen in de duistere sfeer van deze geniale verhalen!
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
A mixed collection, but the best stories were really brilliant! Strong writing throughout and some very weird (and wonderful) concepts
Wow! Haunting, intensely emotive, an usually perfect mix of bitter and sweet. Perfectly captures the strange, sad, magical experience of living in a small town.
Creepy, poetic, mythic, dark and unsettling. The stories are revealed slowly and are surprising.
collection started off strong and weird, and then ideas were being recycled and some of the stories towards the back half felt kind of gimmicky.
favs: a bruise the size and shape of a door handle, blood rites
favs: a bruise the size and shape of a door handle, blood rites
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Nightmarish folk tales set in contemporary Eastern England, about women navigating the fens of sexuality and love. The magical elements are nothing new--vampires, shapeshifters, a haunted house, a golem, trickster foxes--but Johnson's use of these tropes is original. Despite a few unfortunate gimmicks (a story told both in the second person AND in reverse?), her writing is evocative and full of finely observed details. The stories all combine to form a coherent (if unstable) world, but "Language" particularly stood out to me as a unique take on the pain of loss.