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A review by macbean221b
The Ways We End: Six Tales of Doom by Ann Christy
4.0
For almost the past year, I've been finding apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic/dystopian stories really off-putting, which is a huge change for me, because that's usually my very favorite. October is usually a good month for me, mood-wise, so I thought I'd give this genre a shot again, to see how I handled it.
Of the six stories in this collection, four of them end with more hope than I have with regard to the real world, so I loved them. Even the one that was supposed to have a twist at the end that I didn't realise was a twist until I read the author's notes after the story, because I'd picked up on it right at the beginning. There were two stories that lacked hope, one of which I didn't really care for, and one which I seriously disliked. I see a lot of reviews from people calling it their favorite, and I absolutely understand why, looking at it objectively. But it was too dark for my current literary tastes, and touched on gender and mental health issues that I would have challenged as an editor and personally needed to hear more about as a reader to make me give the story anything more than a hard side-eye.
So. I generally recommend this book, most of it even if you're not usually a fan of end-of-the-world stories.
Of the six stories in this collection, four of them end with more hope than I have with regard to the real world, so I loved them. Even the one that was supposed to have a twist at the end that I didn't realise was a twist until I read the author's notes after the story, because I'd picked up on it right at the beginning. There were two stories that lacked hope, one of which I didn't really care for, and one which I seriously disliked. I see a lot of reviews from people calling it their favorite, and I absolutely understand why, looking at it objectively. But it was too dark for my current literary tastes, and touched on gender and mental health issues that I would have challenged as an editor and personally needed to hear more about as a reader to make me give the story anything more than a hard side-eye.
So. I generally recommend this book, most of it even if you're not usually a fan of end-of-the-world stories.