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keerthana_n's review against another edition
4.0
Snapshots is a collection of wonderful short stories ranging with different genre from horror to crime,tales of regret and grief.This book is perfect for everyone as every story tries to suck you in their little world within those three pages each.
I 100% recommend to the readers who love thrillers
My favorite story is REFLECTIONS as it beautifully depicted the story of a son grieving his father has an unusual encounter in the graveyard.
The Quality of writing is excellent and utterly engaging.
Thank you Netgalley and to the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this.
I 100% recommend to the readers who love thrillers
My favorite story is REFLECTIONS as it beautifully depicted the story of a son grieving his father has an unusual encounter in the graveyard.
The Quality of writing is excellent and utterly engaging.
Thank you Netgalley and to the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this.
pvn's review
4.0
A strong collection of stories in multiple genres, mostly set in the Midwest. These are engaging and interesting. Recommended for anthology and short story fans.
I really appreciate the review copy!
I really appreciate the review copy!
msw's review
4.0
Eliot Parker's new collection of short stories is set largely in Eastern Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and West Virginia. Eliot is an observer and imaginer of life's quirky, ironic, random pay backs. His stories almost always have some twist or turn or surprise at the end-- in many cases the punishment of a nasty main character. "Reckless" is a good example of this with a drinking-on-the-job Sheriff about to retire, who has a hit-and-run accident. The reader watches the sheriff try to cover his deed, and the payoff is a chilly frisson at the end.
It's especially interesting to me that Parker's endings, whether ghostly retribution or change in a character, have a similar satisfying quality of payback. Some are more hopeful: at least twice, for example, couples get a second chance after almost losing each other. This, however, is also a surprise, given the dark endings of most of the stories,
Parker also has a penchant for how things operate. One of my favorite stories is "The Ten Pin," which has some very precise analysis of what is entailed in a successful strike in the sport of bowling. This story is about a couple of college age young men who get involved with some low lifes in the drug trade. much of the action takes place in a very well envisioned bowling alley. The rest is driving around the streets and back roads of Hinton, West Virginia. It has a solid realism of missteps and frustrated intentions–and a surprise at the end!
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