A review by spinesinaline
This Is How You Start to Disappear by Astrid Blodgett

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.25

So I’ve got to say, I have a slight grudge against this book and the publisher for not offering any content warnings. The blurb mentions an injured dog being put down but not that the very first story, on the first page of the book, in the first sentence, begins with detail of a dog’s death. It’s hard to come back from that and want to finish the rest of the stories.

While the opener wasn’t a favourite, I did enjoy some of the stories but it was a pretty tepid short story collection for me. I enjoyed a lot more of the stories nearer the end of the collection. Heads up that the mention of trauma in the blurb is a continuing theme throughout, there is a lot of delving into death and sexual assault. Thanks to ZG Stories for a copy to review.
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