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leasummer 's review for:
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021
by Steph Cha, Alafair Burke
2 stars for complete failure to include mysteries or thrillers in a “best of mystery and thriller” book.
I really wanted to like this, I was excited to read that there is a new editor for this project. But it just felt flat for me. I’m not sure if it was the short story format or that the selected stories just didn’t work for me. More often than not a new story would start and I was thinking “wait, where was the mystery or thrill, how is the story over”. I enjoyed the story of the shark but spent most of the time wondering what the mystery was. I also thought the story on social media and suicide was was written. Other than that most of the rest of stories left me feeling very meh.
I really wanted to like this, I was excited to read that there is a new editor for this project. But it just felt flat for me. I’m not sure if it was the short story format or that the selected stories just didn’t work for me. More often than not a new story would start and I was thinking “wait, where was the mystery or thrill, how is the story over”. I enjoyed the story of the shark but spent most of the time wondering what the mystery was. I also thought the story on social media and suicide was was written. Other than that most of the rest of stories left me feeling very meh.