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mariareadssff 's review for:
Managing and Other Lies: A Queer Horror Collection
by Willow Heath
3.5 stars
I love Willow's content on YouToube. Her channel is called Willow Talks Books. I highly recommend her reviews.
I was so excited for this debut and I am glad I got to experience it for myself.
I loved 3 short stories from this collection:
"Chloe. Claire1", "Baby" and "Little Blue Sticky Notes".
While "Managing" and "A Mother's Love" had ups and downs from a pacing or structural reason, "We Understand Each Other Perfectly" was brilliant up to one point.
I want to explain why I was so heratbroken by the end of "We Understand Each Other Perfectly", but that will mean spoiling a part of the story. So please only continue foward if you read the story.
Spoiler
"We Understand Each Other Perfectly" is the third work (each by different author) that broke my heart with the decision of punishing the abuser(s) with torture or with "the same coin".
All these works were perfect 5 star experiences until that decision.
How are we going to break the cycle if we justify "they diserved it" and continue the cycle of violence?
As a victim of abuse I want to belive that we can do better, that while we should use self defense, we should never encourage torture on abusers or repay them in kind as in doing so we will become exactly like the monsters we always feared.
I love Willow's content on YouToube. Her channel is called Willow Talks Books. I highly recommend her reviews.
I was so excited for this debut and I am glad I got to experience it for myself.
I loved 3 short stories from this collection:
"Chloe. Claire1", "Baby" and "Little Blue Sticky Notes".
While "Managing" and "A Mother's Love" had ups and downs from a pacing or structural reason, "We Understand Each Other Perfectly" was brilliant up to one point.
I want to explain why I was so heratbroken by the end of "We Understand Each Other Perfectly", but that will mean spoiling a part of the story. So please only continue foward if you read the story.
Spoiler
"We Understand Each Other Perfectly" is the third work (each by different author) that broke my heart with the decision of punishing the abuser(s) with torture or with "the same coin".
All these works were perfect 5 star experiences until that decision.
How are we going to break the cycle if we justify "they diserved it" and continue the cycle of violence?
As a victim of abuse I want to belive that we can do better, that while we should use self defense, we should never encourage torture on abusers or repay them in kind as in doing so we will become exactly like the monsters we always feared.