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tregina's review against another edition
3.0
This book helped me really understand just what kind of weird fiction really works for me, and it turns out I like it a little edgier and a little weirder than this. The quality of the collection was overall quite good, but just a few stories hit that sweet spot for me. One was "Blood Willows" by Caroline M. Yoachim, and another was "Prayers for an Egg" by Sara Genge. Both of those focused on relatable activities in a weird world (mourning, death, self-determination, child-rearing), as opposed to focusing on a weird element in a mundane world, which is really what I was looking for. The book certainly does deliver on everything it promises, and has a wide variety of stories available; surely a different subset will be exactly what someone else is looking for too.
tregina's review
3.0
This book helped me really understand just what kind of weird fiction really works for me, and it turns out I like it a little edgier and a little weirder than this. The quality of the collection was overall quite good, but just a few stories hit that sweet spot for me. One was "Blood Willows" by Caroline M. Yoachim, and another was "Prayers for an Egg" by Sara Genge. Both of those focused on relatable activities in a weird world (mourning, death, self-determination, child-rearing), as opposed to focusing on a weird element in a mundane world, which is really what I was looking for. The book certainly does deliver on everything it promises, and has a wide variety of stories available; surely a different subset will be exactly what someone else is looking for too.
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