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I devoured this thing REALLY quickly despite not particularly living it. Still, I was intrigued enough to want to know the twists and turns of each story. I’ll go over my thoughts on each quickly.
Things Have Gotten Worse - The title is great, and the concept (told over texts and AIM) is really novel. It suffers a bit from odd writing but that seems intentional (one character is way more verbose than it feels like anyone would be). The ending is so uniquely, terrifyingly, upsetting that it saves the plot that otherwise seems cruel and gross just for shock value. The twists are not interesting but the whole thing is disturbing enough I read the whole thing in a sitting.
Enchantment - Authors have things they like to include a lot but it’s still weird when child crucifixions and bleach ears show up twice. Again, the set up is great (though I’ll admit the prologue probably makes the rest of it worse) but the pay off is… just dull. The ending goes way too far in a way that isn’t earned. I retroactively get what the point was but… only retroactively.
Like That All Over - This one I liked, and it felt sorta Stephen King-y (though a bit too wordy in places). The moral was good, twists fun… no idea what the ending meant… but it made its point effectively and in doing so filled me with just a tinge of anxiety.
All in all a quick and easy read, but not a phenomenal one. Still, I read the thing in under 48 hours, which is rare for me, so it still dug its hooks in good.
Things Have Gotten Worse - The title is great, and the concept (told over texts and AIM) is really novel. It suffers a bit from odd writing but that seems intentional (one character is way more verbose than it feels like anyone would be). The ending is so uniquely, terrifyingly, upsetting that it saves the plot that otherwise seems cruel and gross just for shock value. The twists are not interesting but the whole thing is disturbing enough I read the whole thing in a sitting.
Enchantment - Authors have things they like to include a lot but it’s still weird when child crucifixions and bleach ears show up twice. Again, the set up is great (though I’ll admit the prologue probably makes the rest of it worse) but the pay off is… just dull. The ending goes way too far in a way that isn’t earned. I retroactively get what the point was but… only retroactively.
Like That All Over - This one I liked, and it felt sorta Stephen King-y (though a bit too wordy in places). The moral was good, twists fun… no idea what the ending meant… but it made its point effectively and in doing so filled me with just a tinge of anxiety.
All in all a quick and easy read, but not a phenomenal one. Still, I read the thing in under 48 hours, which is rare for me, so it still dug its hooks in good.