A review by karlyo83
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

1.0

Thank you to Titan Books, NetGalley and the author for a copy of this in exchange for a review.

My rating: 1⭐️ for so many reasons that aren’t my usual 1star reasons… but it just wasn’t good.

So I am not going to do a recap - this is a collection of short stories (8 I think) and they are promoted as being dark, beautifully crafted and devastating… in the beginning the writing was quite beautiful…the prose was crafted very well… It is possible it was that way for the entire book but the book was doing other things that completely derailed me.

For starters - I found some of these stories unintentionally funny… I think it was the way things were described that it made them seem like some kind of satirical comedy but my understanding is that these were supposed to be dead ass serious… so I guess this makes them miss the mark for me… I am absolutely not telling you which bits I found funny either