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A review by inkspitblog
Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire by Milton Davis, Sheree R. Thomas
2.0
I was provided with an eARC of this book by the publishers and netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
I couldn’t like this even though I really wanted to. Some of the stories were great, others awful. The different levels of writing made that really difficult to want to continue. Anthologies should be edited to the same standard but some stories were full of errors - typos or tense issues, and others lacked flow. Especially the ones with older characters and children who all talked like adults from our generation. The same with the characters from the 1920s. There were some stand out stories but ultimately I would be disappointed to buy this anthology and to find it so inconsistent in quality.
I love the idea and themes here, but I’d almost prefer less stories but longer ones? I’m not sure how this could be better. I’d also say one character is trans and is deadnamed within the story which I found concerning. Also use of some archaic terms for Black people which some may find offensive even if accurate to the time period.
I couldn’t like this even though I really wanted to. Some of the stories were great, others awful. The different levels of writing made that really difficult to want to continue. Anthologies should be edited to the same standard but some stories were full of errors - typos or tense issues, and others lacked flow. Especially the ones with older characters and children who all talked like adults from our generation. The same with the characters from the 1920s. There were some stand out stories but ultimately I would be disappointed to buy this anthology and to find it so inconsistent in quality.
I love the idea and themes here, but I’d almost prefer less stories but longer ones? I’m not sure how this could be better. I’d also say one character is trans and is deadnamed within the story which I found concerning. Also use of some archaic terms for Black people which some may find offensive even if accurate to the time period.