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A review by alyce6d980
Love Hurts by Malorie Blackman
4.0
Containing twenty four short stories from popular YA authors, I was certain that this was going to be one of the most interesting and exciting anthologies that I'd ever had the pleasure to read. Curated by Malorie Blackman, featuring contributions from Philip Pullman, Gayle Forman, David Levithan and Jenny Downham - including many, many more? Mind-blowing stuff.
Alas, it was not to be the case. It turns out that a mere five of these short stories are actually new short stories - out of the other nineteen contributions, only two are actually short stories. Yep, utter disappointment. I couldn't believe it. The other seventeen "short stories" are extended excerpts from best-selling YA novels, such as 'I Am The Messenger' by Markus Zusak and 'We Were Liars' by E. Lockhart.
I really dislike extended excerpts: I can't see any reason behind them. If I was going to read the book, why would I want a section of spoilers from it? This meant that I decided straight off that I was going to add the novels that I hadn't read to a list of ones to look up, and just read the seven short stories that are self-contained. I'm going to write small reviews of each of these, and the rating for the collection will be the average of the ratings I've given these seven.
Read the rest of my review here!
Alas, it was not to be the case. It turns out that a mere five of these short stories are actually new short stories - out of the other nineteen contributions, only two are actually short stories. Yep, utter disappointment. I couldn't believe it. The other seventeen "short stories" are extended excerpts from best-selling YA novels, such as 'I Am The Messenger' by Markus Zusak and 'We Were Liars' by E. Lockhart.
I really dislike extended excerpts: I can't see any reason behind them. If I was going to read the book, why would I want a section of spoilers from it? This meant that I decided straight off that I was going to add the novels that I hadn't read to a list of ones to look up, and just read the seven short stories that are self-contained. I'm going to write small reviews of each of these, and the rating for the collection will be the average of the ratings I've given these seven.
Read the rest of my review here!