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A review by devannm
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
3.0
Honestly Gaiman is pretty hit or miss for me at this point, but this was a pretty good collection and I do really like his reading voice so I can just drift in and out if I'm not really feeling it. It's been awhile since I've listened to any of his other anthologies but I think most of these stories were new to me so that was nice [he tends to reuse them a fair bit from what I've noticed].
The three stories that really stood out to me in this were the Sherlock Holmes story, the Doctor Who story, and the American Gods story [which I notice he's always smart enough to put last to end his anthologies on a high note] so I think having three stories like that from known properties helped bump this up from a 2 to a 3 star read for me personally.
A lot of his stuff is really good but any time he writes about women in the context of what he apparently thinks of as 'romance' my entire body seizes up and I just absolutely hate it. This one definitely had a lot less of that than other collections I've read but there were still several points where I was rolling my eyes like really Neil?
The three stories that really stood out to me in this were the Sherlock Holmes story, the Doctor Who story, and the American Gods story [which I notice he's always smart enough to put last to end his anthologies on a high note] so I think having three stories like that from known properties helped bump this up from a 2 to a 3 star read for me personally.
A lot of his stuff is really good but any time he writes about women in the context of what he apparently thinks of as 'romance' my entire body seizes up and I just absolutely hate it. This one definitely had a lot less of that than other collections I've read but there were still several points where I was rolling my eyes like really Neil?