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A review by aimiller
Skull and Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga by Rebecca A. Coates, Szmeralda Shanel, Amanda Bergloff, Kate Wolford, Lissa Sloan, Charlotte Honigman, Jessamy Corob Cook, Jill Marie Ross, Kate Forsyth
4.0
I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the press for the opportunity to read this book.
This collection was overall pretty delightful and interesting! I was not super familiar with Baba Yaga as a concept or figure, but I would say you don't have to be. There is also an opportunity for some of the stories to feel repetitive, but I think the stories did a good job of being varied enough that they weren't the same thing over and over again. The story that got me the most was "The Partisan and the Witch" by Charlotte Honigman--it was just beautiful and brutal at the same time. I also liked "Teeth" quite a bite as well.
This collection was overall pretty delightful and interesting! I was not super familiar with Baba Yaga as a concept or figure, but I would say you don't have to be. There is also an opportunity for some of the stories to feel repetitive, but I think the stories did a good job of being varied enough that they weren't the same thing over and over again. The story that got me the most was "The Partisan and the Witch" by Charlotte Honigman--it was just beautiful and brutal at the same time. I also liked "Teeth" quite a bite as well.