A review by abbie_
Oddbody by Rose Keating

dark mysterious fast-paced

3.0

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC of this squirmy little collection! I did enjoy it, but I think some of the metaphors were too on the nose, like it was very clear at the end of each story what the ~moral~ was. Some worked, some not so much. We had personal ghosts, worm dads, brutal body modifications, final girls, and literal egg-laying women. The concepts were cool but some of them were definitely not fleshed out enough for my tastes. They could have been explored more and it would have been a much more impactful collection.

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My favourites were Squirm (a woman looks after her dad following a bizarre transformation), Pineapple (a woman balances a new relationship and unique body modifications as art), and Eggshells (women lay eggs each morning whose contents can be manipulated via thoughts).

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Promising as a debut, I just wanted a little more substance!