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A review by zimebelle
Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles by Natalie C. Parker
2.0
Contents
Riddles in Mathematics by Katie Cotugno
Dread South by Justina Ireland
Omega Ship by Rae Carson
La Revancha Del Tango by Renee Ahdieh
Cass, An, and Dra by Natalie C. Parker
Lessons for Beginners by Julie Murphy
Triangle Solo by Garth Nix
Vim and Vigor by Veronica Roth
Work in Progress by E.K. Johnston
Hurdles by Brandy Colbert
The Historian, the Garrison, and the Cantankerous Catwoman by Lamar Giles
Waiting by Sabaa Tahir
Vega by Brenna Yovanoff
A Hundred Thousand Threads by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Before She Was Bloody by Tessa Gratton
Unus, Duo, Tres by Bethany Hagen
I'll start off with I hate love triangles. They are the dumbest trope and horrible in fiction and in real life. I had this come to me as a recommendation of new ya books out and I just laughed that someone created a whole book of short stories of this monstrosity of storytelling. I immediately wrote it off. I kept thinking about it on and off for a few months. Why not give it a try, maybe someone could prove me wrong, they're short so it's not going to be as agonizing, maybe I could find a way that isn't awful.
Some of these stories are a ... very unique take on a love triangle. I wouldn't really say the majority even loosely fall into what you would think of as a love triangle; I walked in and smiled at two boys; I have zero romantic interest someone that I'm dating/going to be paired with but have feelings for someone else; a love interest is a city.
Some are written in a very interesting and fresh way, but not really written very well. Some I couldn't get into at all, and others I had to look back at the titles because they were so unmemorable.
Wonderful that there was a few that featured the love triangle as a poly relationship but, in both, the character had to/felt the need kill themselves so that their lovers could be together because they deserve each other and would be better off without them. I guess I would like if you're going to have a poly amorous relationship you do that, instead of "O no it needs to just be a couple so let's kill them off."
In this I really only liked three stories. They have gotten me interested in what else the authors have written. As a whole only really getting into 3/16 isn't a sterling recommendation... but there ya go. Some were interesting but not that I would want to seek out, not ones where I'm left craving more from a novella, or wondering what happened before. I think that's a great quality of a story, especially a short story that has to build up everything so quickly, that you want more.
Riddles in Mathematics by Katie Cotugno
Dread South by Justina Ireland
Omega Ship by Rae Carson
La Revancha Del Tango by Renee Ahdieh
Cass, An, and Dra by Natalie C. Parker
Lessons for Beginners by Julie Murphy
Triangle Solo by Garth Nix
Vim and Vigor by Veronica Roth
Work in Progress by E.K. Johnston
Hurdles by Brandy Colbert
The Historian, the Garrison, and the Cantankerous Catwoman by Lamar Giles
Waiting by Sabaa Tahir
Vega by Brenna Yovanoff
A Hundred Thousand Threads by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Before She Was Bloody by Tessa Gratton
Unus, Duo, Tres by Bethany Hagen
I'll start off with I hate love triangles. They are the dumbest trope and horrible in fiction and in real life. I had this come to me as a recommendation of new ya books out and I just laughed that someone created a whole book of short stories of this monstrosity of storytelling. I immediately wrote it off. I kept thinking about it on and off for a few months. Why not give it a try, maybe someone could prove me wrong, they're short so it's not going to be as agonizing, maybe I could find a way that isn't awful.
Some of these stories are a ... very unique take on a love triangle. I wouldn't really say the majority even loosely fall into what you would think of as a love triangle; I walked in and smiled at two boys; I have zero romantic interest someone that I'm dating/going to be paired with but have feelings for someone else; a love interest is a city.
Some are written in a very interesting and fresh way, but not really written very well. Some I couldn't get into at all, and others I had to look back at the titles because they were so unmemorable.
Wonderful that there was a few that featured the love triangle as a poly relationship but, in both, the character had to/felt the need kill themselves so that their lovers could be together because they deserve each other and would be better off without them. I guess I would like if you're going to have a poly amorous relationship you do that, instead of "O no it needs to just be a couple so let's kill them off."
In this I really only liked three stories. They have gotten me interested in what else the authors have written. As a whole only really getting into 3/16 isn't a sterling recommendation... but there ya go. Some were interesting but not that I would want to seek out, not ones where I'm left craving more from a novella, or wondering what happened before. I think that's a great quality of a story, especially a short story that has to build up everything so quickly, that you want more.