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A review by knod78
Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean by Payal Dhar, Anita Roy, Kirsty Murray
2.0
This completes Task 10: Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color of Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge. This task was the task I dreaded. So, my rating is based on my dislike for short stories compilations. This will officially be my last one. I just don’t like them.
This book was really hit or miss. It was the only one on the recommended reading list that got my attention…taking myths and stories and place them into a Sci-fi setting with domestic violence/women’s issues as an underlying theme. In theory, that’s what I got. But meh. Lots of the stories I didn’t really understand what they were trying to say. Even reading the Notes on Collaboration helped, but I was like, I didn’t get that at all. Some of the stories just ended. I really liked Little Red Suit (like Little Red Riding Hood) until it ended with her in a house not knowing if she made it back alive.
I loved Cast Out (favorite), Arctic Light, What a Stone Can’t Feel, and Memory Lace. I would read more from these authors, but not any short stories.
This book was really hit or miss. It was the only one on the recommended reading list that got my attention…taking myths and stories and place them into a Sci-fi setting with domestic violence/women’s issues as an underlying theme. In theory, that’s what I got. But meh. Lots of the stories I didn’t really understand what they were trying to say. Even reading the Notes on Collaboration helped, but I was like, I didn’t get that at all. Some of the stories just ended. I really liked Little Red Suit (like Little Red Riding Hood) until it ended with her in a house not knowing if she made it back alive.
I loved Cast Out (favorite), Arctic Light, What a Stone Can’t Feel, and Memory Lace. I would read more from these authors, but not any short stories.