A review by storytimed
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

2.0

High school me would despair to hear me say this, but................ Neil Gaiman is annoying.
I think the whole effect of his personality is even worse when you're reading a collection of his short stories, because it's just a whole lot of Neil Gaiman
He's just so in love with his own cleverness............. but it's not actually that clever, much of the time it's just regressive tropes from the 90s. Like he has this whole short story about Snow White where Snow White is a sexually aggressive child vampire and it's basically Fledgling but worse
Like when he gets too in love with himself
And you remember he's a white guy