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The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater
4.0
Through this anthology I've discovered that short stories are both more enjoyable and more difficult to read.
The first because the variety of a short story is amazing: in the same amount of space you can receive a snippet of a plot, character, relationship, or scenario, or you can begin and end one whole happening all-together; also, a.k.a "the first point part b," within the same boundaries of prompt you can receive an infinite amount of points of view, existence or lack of moral/social lessons and standpoints, and plot twists especially in the hands of three different authors.
The second because it leaves the thirst that reading quenches unabated - either you want more of the characters, story, plot-line, etc, or you have had enough of what you've read but it can't leave your head because of all the lingering questions and thoughts it plants.
I found this book to be both enjoyable and difficult to digest, and the juxtaposition of the two of those things in the grand scheme of reading YA-dystopian-fantasy-fiction is really only one thing: a damn good time.
The first because the variety of a short story is amazing: in the same amount of space you can receive a snippet of a plot, character, relationship, or scenario, or you can begin and end one whole happening all-together; also, a.k.a "the first point part b," within the same boundaries of prompt you can receive an infinite amount of points of view, existence or lack of moral/social lessons and standpoints, and plot twists especially in the hands of three different authors.
The second because it leaves the thirst that reading quenches unabated - either you want more of the characters, story, plot-line, etc, or you have had enough of what you've read but it can't leave your head because of all the lingering questions and thoughts it plants.
I found this book to be both enjoyable and difficult to digest, and the juxtaposition of the two of those things in the grand scheme of reading YA-dystopian-fantasy-fiction is really only one thing: a damn good time.