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angielisle's review
4.0
This is a collection of five novellas featuring Gary Braunbeck's fictional town of Cedar Hill. I rated each novella, then averaged the ratings to come up with four-stars for the whole collection. There are a couple typos (missing punctuation, strange bold words), which might upset the OCD-crowd but doesn't detract from the stories.
I wasn't crazy about the opening story, In the Midnight Museum, because it reads like literary nonsense and I'm not a fan of the genre so it's no surprise that this tale didn't hook me. How this story was put together was more interesting to me than the actual story (much like Lewis Carroll's work).
Science-fiction and supernatural horror blend together, playing off the fear of road-accidents in Road Mama and Daddy Bliss while Kiss of the Mudman resurrects the ghosts of musical idols to remind us how thoughts and beliefs can shape reality. A freaky Halloween tale, Tessellations, has a strong Day of the Dead influence.
The closing story, The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women, is my favorite story in the collection. A gruesome be-careful-what-you-wish-for tale hitting upon an issue that all women encounter at some point in their lives: body image.
I look forward to visiting Cedar Hill again in the future.
I wasn't crazy about the opening story, In the Midnight Museum, because it reads like literary nonsense and I'm not a fan of the genre so it's no surprise that this tale didn't hook me. How this story was put together was more interesting to me than the actual story (much like Lewis Carroll's work).
Science-fiction and supernatural horror blend together, playing off the fear of road-accidents in Road Mama and Daddy Bliss while Kiss of the Mudman resurrects the ghosts of musical idols to remind us how thoughts and beliefs can shape reality. A freaky Halloween tale, Tessellations, has a strong Day of the Dead influence.
The closing story, The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women, is my favorite story in the collection. A gruesome be-careful-what-you-wish-for tale hitting upon an issue that all women encounter at some point in their lives: body image.
I look forward to visiting Cedar Hill again in the future.
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