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slow-paced
3.0
You belong to me. All you pretty Marys belong to me.
I love cozy, mysterious little ghost stories, and I adore books featuring ghosts as the main characters, so this was right up my alley. Pretty Marys All in a Row is a quiet, speculative novella about a group of Marys and the pain-staking lengths they go to in order to keep themselves "alive" as fabled spirits, and I really enjoyed the way all of these urban legends were brought together to tell this story.
Unfortunately, I'll admit that the plot lost my interest at times, mostly because of how slow-paced it felt — this struck me as a story that may have worked better at the 40- or 50-page mark, maybe even as an installment in an anthology — but overall, I thought it was a sweet, whimsical tale and I enjoyed it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Gore
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