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Body Shocks by Kij Johnson, Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Johnstone, Nathan Ballingrud, Brian Evenson, Livia Llewellyn, Lucy Taylor, Kirstyn McDermott, Michael Blumlein, Kaaron Warren, Ellen Datlow, Simon Bestwick, Priya Sharma, Lisa L. Hannett, Gemma Files, Richard Kadrey, Carmen Maria Machado, Alyssa Wong, Cody Goodfellow, Genevieve Valentine, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Christopher Fowler, Tananarive Due, Ray Cluley, Edward Bryant, Pat Cadigan, Seanan McGuire, Cassandra Khaw, Terry Dowling, Angela Slatter

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4.0

Like most anthologies, you will find some stories are more to your liking than others, but I liked most of the stories, none of the stories were what I’d call extreme, some had a bit of gore, some had more a physiological theme to them.

Each story had a list of awards and sometimes a link for that writer, but I think they would have been better placed at the end of the stories, as there was a few times I ended up going back to the start of the story so I could use the link.

Some of the stand out stories for me were;
A Positive by Kaaron Warren – about greedy people getting what comes to them
Subsumption by Lucy Taylor – a post-apocalyptic story where people are not the real monsters.
Welcome to Mengele’s by Simon Bestwick – about an brothel, where any fantasy can be made reality.
Natural Skin by Alyssa Wong – is about a black market surgeon, and making deals.
The Lake by Tananarive Due – a slow transformation story.
Spores by Seanan McGuire – Nobody likes mold especially one that you can’t clean away.

*Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for a honest review.*