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_fallinglight_'s review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, and Vomit
connorjdaley's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Last Spooky Season I gave Sour Candy and Dead Leaves a read, so this year a bought two more. I feel like this author just gets me. I like horror, but I do prefer it short, so his collection of novellas is superb.
This is a unique tale of loss, grief, and coming to grips with what’s real. It’s even more uniquely interlinked within almost Baba Yaga-esque nightmare-scapes. I don’t usually like dreams in stories—the what is, and what is not real undertones—as they don’t often work for me, but the author uses a deft hand to integrate them in ways that compliment the main characters detachment while he’s awake.
I also enjoyed how the author gives us a supernatural/paranormal story, but with the stages of grief on display, the level of alcohol being consumed, and the character being in the bowels of despair, it could also be entirely imagined…maybe even personally caused?
Enjoyable and quick.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief
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