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nicoleankenmann's review
2.0
Audiobook: 05hr 22m
The risk of an anthology is that sometimes the combination is simply unpalatable. The first story in this collection is by far the most disturbing and graphic and had I picked up a physical copy of this book, I'd have likely abandoned it after a few pages. Had I done so, I'd have missed out on a couple of gems, but as this book was barely held together by the genre and lacked a guiding theme more specific than "mystery," it would have been difficult to predict. I'm generally a fan of short story collections, but this one seemed thoughtlessly compiled — a pity.
The risk of an anthology is that sometimes the combination is simply unpalatable. The first story in this collection is by far the most disturbing and graphic and had I picked up a physical copy of this book, I'd have likely abandoned it after a few pages. Had I done so, I'd have missed out on a couple of gems, but as this book was barely held together by the genre and lacked a guiding theme more specific than "mystery," it would have been difficult to predict. I'm generally a fan of short story collections, but this one seemed thoughtlessly compiled — a pity.
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