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A review by john87
Predator: If It Bleeds by Mira Grant, Andrew Mayne
2.0
There's only so many times you can repeat the exact same formulae across multiple short stories before it becomes an exercise in sheer endurance. Especially when every scenario, no matter how novel, ends up so similar to the last one.
As such this anthology features about two or three tales worth your time with the rest serving as filler. While it's all competently written I would've much preferred fewer, more expanded, stories rather than the scattershot approach of sixteen we've gotten with If It Bleeds instead. A Yautja encounter during hurricane Katrina, as outlandish as that sounds, could have been interesting yet it follows the exact same plot beats as the stories set during the Vietnam war, the American Civil war or feudal Japan.
That said, if you go in with low expectations and spread these out over a longer period you might get more enjoyment out of it. For me however I had forgotten most of these shorts as soon as I turned the page to start the next one...
As such this anthology features about two or three tales worth your time with the rest serving as filler. While it's all competently written I would've much preferred fewer, more expanded, stories rather than the scattershot approach of sixteen we've gotten with If It Bleeds instead. A Yautja encounter during hurricane Katrina, as outlandish as that sounds, could have been interesting yet it follows the exact same plot beats as the stories set during the Vietnam war, the American Civil war or feudal Japan.
That said, if you go in with low expectations and spread these out over a longer period you might get more enjoyment out of it. For me however I had forgotten most of these shorts as soon as I turned the page to start the next one...