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hsienhsien27 's review for:
The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert
by Rios de la Luz
On Goodreads, it says that this book came out from Broken River Books, the dark and maybe surreal, judging by the book covers, noir small press publisher. But the Kindle version is from Lady Box Books which is an imprint of Broken River. I’ve been stalking Ladybox Books ever since its making. It’s a press dedicated to publishing female identifying writers. If that isn’t awesome, then I don’t know what else is, especially since a Woman of Color, a Latina, is involved in this and has her book published in this budding small press.
Just look at the cover and fondle it with your eyes for a few seconds. I haven’t been reading much Sci-Fi so I will admit the genre fiction aspect scared me off, despite that my reader senses were like “Buy it, god dang it! or put it on a wish list and buy it soon.” And then it was on sale and I finally got it. So why do I keep rambling, because I don’t have much to say with short stories, I hate that I’m always short on words when it comes to short story collections.
The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert is a collection of stories I have been waiting for. It’s rare for me to read a collection and enjoy 90% of the stories. But this is one of them. It contains a strong personal, cut-throat reality with a quirky bizarre Sci-Fi that is pretty darn close to bizarro and I’m thinking of C.V. Hunt right now, but honestly I suck at comparisons. Some of the stories are Young adult or take place from a young child, it’s so odd how de la Luz is able to write a children’s story that is so innocent yet so highly aware of how a child is so sensitive to other people’s lurking evilness, they are wide awake.
There’s time machines, aliens, laser guns, and girls beating up dudes, it’s not sweet at all despite the pretty book cover. The stories are surreal and eccentric and are not guilty for going further than that. The prose is in Spanglish and written more like narrative poetry than traditional prose, especially with the use of “you,” which I was surprised to see since most writers and readers, from what I’ve heard of consider the second person perspective to be ‘pretentious’ or overdone. This is the second time I’ve come across this, the first time, from what I remember was Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine, which was published by Atatl Press. But I never finished that book, I only read the first few pages, I will in the future though. You are very tricky, you can be something that can get a little perplexing, but you are awesome, because it’s like de la Luz is talking to you, leading you by the hand through the story. She is whispering about every moment about her fictional life. You listen and you nod, she is bleeding, crying, her wet eyeliner creating a sort of black blush for her cheeks that she totally messed up somehow. And you keep listening because it’s hard to turn away.
Rating: 5/5
Originally posted on Notes on the Shore
Just look at the cover and fondle it with your eyes for a few seconds. I haven’t been reading much Sci-Fi so I will admit the genre fiction aspect scared me off, despite that my reader senses were like “Buy it, god dang it! or put it on a wish list and buy it soon.” And then it was on sale and I finally got it. So why do I keep rambling, because I don’t have much to say with short stories, I hate that I’m always short on words when it comes to short story collections.
The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert is a collection of stories I have been waiting for. It’s rare for me to read a collection and enjoy 90% of the stories. But this is one of them. It contains a strong personal, cut-throat reality with a quirky bizarre Sci-Fi that is pretty darn close to bizarro and I’m thinking of C.V. Hunt right now, but honestly I suck at comparisons. Some of the stories are Young adult or take place from a young child, it’s so odd how de la Luz is able to write a children’s story that is so innocent yet so highly aware of how a child is so sensitive to other people’s lurking evilness, they are wide awake.
There’s time machines, aliens, laser guns, and girls beating up dudes, it’s not sweet at all despite the pretty book cover. The stories are surreal and eccentric and are not guilty for going further than that. The prose is in Spanglish and written more like narrative poetry than traditional prose, especially with the use of “you,” which I was surprised to see since most writers and readers, from what I’ve heard of consider the second person perspective to be ‘pretentious’ or overdone. This is the second time I’ve come across this, the first time, from what I remember was Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine, which was published by Atatl Press. But I never finished that book, I only read the first few pages, I will in the future though. You are very tricky, you can be something that can get a little perplexing, but you are awesome, because it’s like de la Luz is talking to you, leading you by the hand through the story. She is whispering about every moment about her fictional life. You listen and you nod, she is bleeding, crying, her wet eyeliner creating a sort of black blush for her cheeks that she totally messed up somehow. And you keep listening because it’s hard to turn away.
Rating: 5/5
Originally posted on Notes on the Shore