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A review by smalefowles
Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales by Christopher Slatsky, Jordan Krall
3.0
I'm torn about rating this book, but I think I have to round down to three stars. There were some unique ideas here, and I just appreciated the variety of settings and sheer imagination. There was also some good writing, but I kept running into sentences that felt really clunky. It wasn't even the more excessive vocabulary moments, but just small irritations that kept catching at the edge of my mind.
The first story "Loveliness Like a Shadow" was a compelling weird tale about a lonely woman's growing confusion. "An Infestation of Stars" felt a little like being told about a story rather than reading a story, but I liked the story, if that makes sense. "No One Is Sleeping in This World" is obviously set in LA, and I enjoyed it too. Honestly, if I think back on the idea of each story, I want to give this book more stars, but I wanted to enjoy the sentences more.
I think it might be a first book, though, and given the originality, I'd definitely read another by this writer.
The first story "Loveliness Like a Shadow" was a compelling weird tale about a lonely woman's growing confusion. "An Infestation of Stars" felt a little like being told about a story rather than reading a story, but I liked the story, if that makes sense. "No One Is Sleeping in This World" is obviously set in LA, and I enjoyed it too. Honestly, if I think back on the idea of each story, I want to give this book more stars, but I wanted to enjoy the sentences more.
I think it might be a first book, though, and given the originality, I'd definitely read another by this writer.