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etienne02's review
3.0
This was my first try with microfiction. I find the idea interesting, but those stories also didn't felt much like stories, but more like glimpses or pieces of them, they felt uncompleted and too short for my taste I guess. I did like the way that author can play and try style or narrative variation, because it's so short that it allow the author a great liberty and its a good way to experiment stuff. I won,t become a ferocious microfiction reader, but I like the experience and I think this book is a good way for fans of the genres to see what has been done recently and for newcomers to discover a new genres and see if they like it.
elizabethjstewart's review
3.0
Microfiction or flash fiction isn't something I'd ever come across before stumbling across this on Netgalley, this is a compilation of over 80 pieces, so perfect as an introduction to the format, there's such a variety of authors, genres and topics that there should be something in here for everyone. As with most compilations there were some I really liked and some I skimmed through; one of the plus sides of microfiction is that if you find yourself not enjoying a piece as much then you won't be wasting much time on it as each is around the 400 word mark. I found them to be a bit deceptive into how much time I could spend reading them; with the author using such a small amount of text to put their character or premise across so much is open for the reader to world build and draw their own conclusions which makes its quite possible that different people will have very different reading experiences. I don't think that personally this format is really for me but I'm glad to have had the opportunity to read this and if you enjoy shorter pieces of writing then this collection is definitely worth a go.
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