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stranger_sights's review
3.0
See my full review (including separate reviews of each story at:
https://mediadrome.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/strange-girls-women-in-horror-anthology/
I just averaged everything to come up with this one. Drumroll, please!
⭐⭐⭐
It was actually 2.7, but barely (rounded up to 3 for GoodReads though). Honestly, my thoughts on this book were just too damned all over the place for me to rate it higher.
https://mediadrome.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/strange-girls-women-in-horror-anthology/
I just averaged everything to come up with this one. Drumroll, please!
⭐⭐⭐
It was actually 2.7, but barely (rounded up to 3 for GoodReads though). Honestly, my thoughts on this book were just too damned all over the place for me to rate it higher.
shannenwales's review
2.0
I received an e-ARC from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
I really appreciated what this collecting was trying to do, putting together horror stories featuring women in new and strange ways. In the forward, the editor describes the collection with 'and in a world where everyday women's choices are dwindling or are at stake, this anthology serves to celebrate these girls' choices' which got me very excited.
Unfortunately, the collection overall didn't speak to this theme to me. Some story were definitely celebrating women's choices, whether hero's or villains - which was especially interesting, but some of the stories had women in the old horror trope of powerless victims which was a huge letdown.
This book dealt with some tough themes, in some stories it was done very well and I'd recommend them to a young adult audience. However, other stories in this book were far more violent in their themes (thankfully with a content warnings). Overall these shifts in tone and degrees of violence made the book confusing and I was left wondering who was the intended audience for this collection. Some stories I'd eagerly recommend to teenagers, but others I'd be pressed to recommend to most women without a heavy content warning due to really graphic sexual violence. I am not sure who to recommend this collection to in its entirety.
My favourite story in the collection was the second story which took a strange and modern spin on the Medusa mythological story that I found was quite powerful! be sure to check it out if you grab this collection.
I really appreciated what this collecting was trying to do, putting together horror stories featuring women in new and strange ways. In the forward, the editor describes the collection with 'and in a world where everyday women's choices are dwindling or are at stake, this anthology serves to celebrate these girls' choices' which got me very excited.
Unfortunately, the collection overall didn't speak to this theme to me. Some story were definitely celebrating women's choices, whether hero's or villains - which was especially interesting, but some of the stories had women in the old horror trope of powerless victims which was a huge letdown.
This book dealt with some tough themes, in some stories it was done very well and I'd recommend them to a young adult audience. However, other stories in this book were far more violent in their themes (thankfully with a content warnings). Overall these shifts in tone and degrees of violence made the book confusing and I was left wondering who was the intended audience for this collection. Some stories I'd eagerly recommend to teenagers, but others I'd be pressed to recommend to most women without a heavy content warning due to really graphic sexual violence. I am not sure who to recommend this collection to in its entirety.
My favourite story in the collection was the second story which took a strange and modern spin on the Medusa mythological story that I found was quite powerful! be sure to check it out if you grab this collection.
stayshomeandreads's review
4.0
3.5
This book was so fun! As with every short story collection, there were a mix of good and bad stories. With this one, that was the case but I was genuinely entertained by every story. I loved the diversity of the characters, authors, and monsters! The dollhouse story could have been its own book. I also really liked how there were interviews with the authors at the end. Overall, this is a fun, quick read that highlights women in a male dominated genre. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC. This book comes out next month.
This book was so fun! As with every short story collection, there were a mix of good and bad stories. With this one, that was the case but I was genuinely entertained by every story. I loved the diversity of the characters, authors, and monsters! The dollhouse story could have been its own book. I also really liked how there were interviews with the authors at the end. Overall, this is a fun, quick read that highlights women in a male dominated genre. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC. This book comes out next month.
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