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worldenderbebe 's review for:
The House Where Death Lives
by Alex Brown
Pretty solid collection of YA paranormal stories.
They were pretty cohesive and they all have a nice pace. Nothing too scary or violent for YA genre.
The authors are mostly women and/ or gender diverse and the same for the main characters in the stories. There were several characters were also queer and many were POCs which made this anthology precious.
The folklore mythology and those themes I thought were pretty interesting. Some of them are unique perspectives.
The biggest issue is that some stories involved violence against these queer characters (some violence is sel-inflicted). Queer characters who are exposed to borderline homophobic/biphobic and even fatphobia situations and then they die in order to find love (with something paranormal). This reoccurring theme makes me a bit worried for young people relating to being alone and reading story and story of young people having to die to stop being unhappy.
They were pretty cohesive and they all have a nice pace. Nothing too scary or violent for YA genre.
The authors are mostly women and/ or gender diverse and the same for the main characters in the stories. There were several characters were also queer and many were POCs which made this anthology precious.
The folklore mythology and those themes I thought were pretty interesting. Some of them are unique perspectives.
The biggest issue is that some stories involved violence against these queer characters (some violence is sel-inflicted). Queer characters who are exposed to borderline homophobic/biphobic and even fatphobia situations and then they die in order to find love (with something paranormal). This reoccurring theme makes me a bit worried for young people relating to being alone and reading story and story of young people having to die to stop being unhappy.