A review by lowercaselena
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i've been procrastinating reading this book for 2 years and it's finally the one thing that gets through to me in this reading slump. the kind of short story collection that makes you go, "oh shit i have to talk about this with someone" after each one. i didn't expect it to be so deeply... magical? maybe that's the wrong word, because it's not magical in the disney sense, it's unsettling. maybe i'm betraying myself when i say i've never read anything like it. I still haven't digested "inventory". It's just brilliant and i want to read more of carmen maria machado