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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
All These Sunken Souls is a beautifully horrifying YA Bipoc anthology. I had so much fun with all of these stories. Some of them genuinely creeped me out. This cover art is all so some of my favorite YA horror cover art that I’ve ever seen. I seriously can’t recommend this collection of stories enough!
4/5 Stars
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me an arc copy in exchange for my honest review.
4/5 Stars
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me an arc copy in exchange for my honest review.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Like most anthologies, some of the stories are great while others are so-so. There are some standouts here, but on the whole a bit lackluster.
”Lights” by Kalynn Bayron: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh wow, this was not what I expected when the story started. It starts out with the narrator plotting to kill a family, and the turns it took were really intriguing and unexpected. Very dark!
”Be Not Afraid” by Ashia Monet: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
WOWZA this was so cool. Strong Midnight Mass vibes. Horrifying. I’ll be thinking about this one for a while!
”All My Best Friends Are Dead” by Liselle Sambury: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This had a fantastic twist, too! What a stellar set of stories so far!
”The Teeth Come Out at Night” by Sami Ellis: ⭐️⭐️
About a girl who babysits and sells the kids’ teeth for money for college. Super weird and confusing and slow paced for a short story.
”I Love Your Eyes” by Joel Rochester: ⭐️⭐️
This one confused me at first because it wasn’t YA—the characters were clearly adults, though it never specified the age. Besides that, it was just a little confusing and unbelievable? Parts of it were predictable and other parts weren’t so much, but this one didn’t really stick the landing for me.
”The Consumption of Vienna Montrose” by Joelle Wellington: ⭐️
I did NOT like this one. I didn’t like the writing style and the story itself was confusing, and then it got into this super weird sexual content that did not fit in a YA story.
”The Landscape of Broken Things” by Brent Lambert: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This had an incredibly unique world! It didn’t feel horror but it was a cool fantasy story.
“Mother, Daughter, and the Devil” by Donyae Coles: ⭐️
I’m not sure what I just read? I liked it at first because I liked the writing style, but it was just so sloooooow and I even thought about DNF’ing it. I was also super confused and just not impacted by the story at all.
”Papa Pearlie” by Ryan Douglass: ⭐️⭐️
This was an interesting idea but the execution didn’t fully land for me.
”No Harm Done” by Circe Moskowitz: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh, this was good. Definitely for fans of The Last of Us. Completely unpredictable and gripping the whole way through.
Read and finished 4 stories. Liked one, the other three were okay. Dnf’d three more stories then dnf’d the book.
slow-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
My favorite by far was “Be Not Afraid” by Ashia Monet, but a couple other gems in this were “Lights,” “Mother, Daughter, and the Devil,” and “No Harm Done.”