thebi_brarian's reviews
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Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams
Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.

Decided to DNF after it taking me weeks to read 50% of the book.

I thought most of the stories were bad. To the point I was left wondering the point of them.


There were some that I liked such as Rebecca Roanhorse's. But they were all pretty light on the horror, I think.

Mrs Sidhu's Deadly Highland Game by Suk Pannu

4.0

Mamo #1 by Sas Milledge

4.0

Murder With Masala by Suk Pannu

4.0

Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin

3.75

Marked down because of

the use of mental health as part of the conclusion and final reveal. Bit of a genre stereotype.

Not the most egregious use but I would have preferred it didn't factor at all.

Also, as much as I did enjoy the book, and I did, it was pretty clear in places that it was written by a man of a certain age. Namely through the descriptions of mainly the female characters (no "breasting boobily" or anything like that, but I felt their descriptions were almost always needlessly unflattering).

Murder at Midnight by Katharine Schellman

3.0

I wanted more from this book. Although I know its a cozy, for a closed circle mystery, I didn't think this was tense enough. It was also fairly predictable on the one hand but with one aspect of the reveal being, I felt, a little out of pocket.

I still enjoyed it but just not as much as the last.

A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams

5.0

Death at the Manor by Katharine Schellman

4.0

Baumgartner by Paul Auster

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

I'm not sure who or what this book was for. The last 50 or so pages were a slog. Overall feeling was one of boredom.

Silence in the Library by Katharine Schellman

4.0