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akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Really good! Some stories were better than others but I loved the body horror. This quenched my thirst for gore and good times, and mushrooms of course.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit, Death, and Body horror
Minor: Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
salm's review against another edition
4.0
didn’t know I needed mycological terror in my life
…but here we are. A couple of stories didn’t quite hit for me, but overall a strong compendium of stories.
…but here we are. A couple of stories didn’t quite hit for me, but overall a strong compendium of stories.
sunnybopeep's review against another edition
4.25
Man, it’s pretty weird reading themed anthologies. You spend hours just reading about one particular thing until you’re sick and tired of that thing. In this case, it was fungi. I read SO MANY stories (and one poem) about fungi. And most of the stories were honestly amazing!!! I wasn’t super into a few of them, but they were mostly ones that came in the final third of the book… so I wonder if I was just fed up with fungal themes by then or what. The Jeff Vandermeer story knocked my socks off, though.
Content Warnings
fungus
lzcvgdn's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
mzsilv's review against another edition
2.5
Unfortunately, I wasn’t particularly taken by this anthology. I don’t think the stories are bad or poorly executed, but most of them fell somewhere from “decent” to “meh” for me. John Langan’s “Hyphae” and Daniel Mills’ “Dust from a Dark Flower” were probably the ones that grabbed me most, but overall I felt very underwhelmed.
asinglebird's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic
loz1327's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence and Body horror
niheed's review against another edition
Not as good as I was expecting, too slow and lost interest; only 1 story caught my attention.