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A review by kajh23
Sidle Creek by Jolene Mcllwain
4.0
I want to give it five stars, but honestly, some of the stories were so disturbing i can’t. Like, they are going to haunt me. Here are some story-by-story thoughts:
The title story was strangely upsetting but not terribly so. It hooked me. But Steer was terrible! Upsetting terrible, not writing terrible, and now I’ll NEVER be able to forget it. The Fractal Geometry of Grief was very sad yet I see the beauty. You Four are the One was, thank goodness, happy. A ray of hope which I needed after Seed to Full. Then Where Lottie Lived? Fuck you, Jolene! What was that? So horribly sad. Will never leave my head. Loose is tough, Shell is simply sad, and Sostenuto is real (and sad). Those Red Boots a mini murder mystery. An Ever Fixed Mark? Well damn. It instantly brought back the opening scenes from “Six Feet Under.” So disturbing and somehow poetic. In fact I’m stopping there because that’s how I would describe most of these - disturbing yet somehow poetic.
The title story was strangely upsetting but not terribly so. It hooked me. But Steer was terrible! Upsetting terrible, not writing terrible, and now I’ll NEVER be able to forget it. The Fractal Geometry of Grief was very sad yet I see the beauty. You Four are the One was, thank goodness, happy. A ray of hope which I needed after Seed to Full. Then Where Lottie Lived? Fuck you, Jolene! What was that? So horribly sad. Will never leave my head. Loose is tough, Shell is simply sad, and Sostenuto is real (and sad). Those Red Boots a mini murder mystery. An Ever Fixed Mark? Well damn. It instantly brought back the opening scenes from “Six Feet Under.” So disturbing and somehow poetic. In fact I’m stopping there because that’s how I would describe most of these - disturbing yet somehow poetic.