m4tr1m0ny 's review for:

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

2.0

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scary!!! not a fan of horror, usually I really love Neil Gaiman but most of these fell short in my opinion. I think I would have given it a higher rating if I had a stronger stomach but these were so horrific and sexual in turn & often at the same time that I had a hard time getting through. I also didn't feel like his usual skill shone through in most of them, but there were definitely a few that I thought were great. "chivalry" in particular was very beautiful but I felt like on the whole the stories were so much more violent & explicitly sexual than I'm used to with his works.