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A review by poachedeggs
Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray
2.0
I read this purely because I had to find an anthology of short stories for a reading challenge, and this is short and mildly amusing (there is almost nothing worse in reading-land than having to plough through a long, badly written anthology of 'short' stories... not that I have ever had to do it).
This was OK. There are vampires, witches and the spirit of the French Revolution, but not a single short story was really frightening. I found Cassandra Clare's mirror concept quite chillingly portrayed, but the incestuous overtones of the romantic relationship between siblings-by-marriage was off-putting.
The rest of the stories adhered to the usual cliches about hormonally charged teenagers with little judgment or good sense (especially Libba Bray's 'Nowhere is Safe').
This was OK. There are vampires, witches and the spirit of the French Revolution, but not a single short story was really frightening. I found Cassandra Clare's mirror concept quite chillingly portrayed, but the incestuous overtones of the romantic relationship between siblings-by-marriage was off-putting.
The rest of the stories adhered to the usual cliches about hormonally charged teenagers with little judgment or good sense (especially Libba Bray's 'Nowhere is Safe').