thebi_brarian's reviews
97 reviews

Was enjoying but book is very dense so was taking me a while and I think maybe over time I just lost interest.

Was really enjoying it but stopped listening and am unsure if I want to go back now.

Have been "currently reading" it for weeks without making much progress. Think perhaps I'm just not feeling it.

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.

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).

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.