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The Black Girl Survives in This One by Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree S. Evans

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
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Thank you to Libro FM and the publisher for the ALC!

There were scarier things than high school.. and she was one of them.

This was a fantastic anthology of short horror stories with Black final girls!!! Ahhhh, I loved the foreword by Tananarive Due, who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA: "The Black Girl Survives in This One is a groundbreaking project that rebukes and revises Black women's invisiblity and servitude in horror. We get to be the heroines, and we get to survive. Cultural value is reflected in the arts, and the Black women in this anthology are asserting that we matter." (I am not Black, I don't want me choosing this quote to be misleading. I just found this to be a powerful, intentional way to open the book!)

As with any anthology, some stories may be your favorites and some may be just fine. However, I genuinely had a great time listening to each of these during my travels! It's so hard to pick standouts but I will try:
-Harvesters by L. L. McKinney: things go awry at a rural house party! This felt like it could be expanded and adapted into an MTV or Freeform made-for-tv movie! 
-The Brides of Devil's Bayou by Desiree S. Evans: an inspired take on generational bargains/curses in the Louisiana Bayou
-Queeniums for Greenium! by Brittney Morris: POV: your sister invites you to a MLM weekend and is convinced her new age smoothie can cure your allergies (this may have been my favorite one, I really had to contain my frustration and anger while I was on the plane listening to this!)
-The Black Strings by Vincent Tirado: our final girl sees black strings that show her competition's deaths (she is a musician) 
-Inheritance by Camara Aaron: learning about soucouyant while on a visit to the Caribbean (Dominican Republic)

I found so many new-to-me authors in this anthology and I will be checking out their other work ASAP! 
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