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A review by patrique
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
An absolute delight; it helps that I was coming in a huge fan of Magpie from her podcast work, but I feel like this would convert someone completely new to Margaret. I’m not huge into SF/F so some of the allusions may have been lost on me, and one or two of the more genre heavy pieces in the middle third kind of dragged for me (the Mermaid story was the only one I took more than one sitting to finish), but for the most part every story does a fantastic job of finding a different stylistic angle on love, death and identity from a strongly leftist, proudly trans perspective
It’s also frequently hilarious although that’s partially attributed to instinctively hearing all the characters in her voice (to the point I would say that the book’s one flaw is that Killjoy maybe doesn’t do enough to distinguish the character voices from each other, most [and all of the heroines] sounding like some variation on her own- but Stephen King does that all the time and he seems to have done pretty well)
Remarkably cohesive for a collection of short stories from a fairly broad timeframe.
It’s also frequently hilarious although that’s partially attributed to instinctively hearing all the characters in her voice (to the point I would say that the book’s one flaw is that Killjoy maybe doesn’t do enough to distinguish the character voices from each other, most [and all of the heroines] sounding like some variation on her own- but Stephen King does that all the time and he seems to have done pretty well)
Remarkably cohesive for a collection of short stories from a fairly broad timeframe.