A review by livangeliaue
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

2.0

I enjoyed this book for the first couple of chapters, and then my enjoyment started to dwindle. The chapters that stood out to me were 30,000 years beneath a eulogy, city of laughter, pig son, and songs of your decay, and I still wish each of those were just a little bit longer. It became repetitive and a bit monotonous and I was ready to be done with it around the halfway point. I think the concept is great but I just wanted fewer stories and a little more out of each one. It was hard to connect with each story and the characters within it, but I enjoyed hearing certain characters re-appear later in the book, but I often couldn't remember who was who. I don't normally read short story collections so I'm not sure how this one compares but it was lackluster for me