Books I Read in November & December | Reading Wrap Up 📖✨

I have to say that as much as I've enjoyed the series so far I really wasn't a huge fan of this book there's only four stories in this particular volume and they are all very reminiscent of stories that we've read previously. For me personally the re explanation of how the traveling back and time works felt like filler it felt like it was in each of the stories just to plump them out a little bit and I just ended up finding it really irritating.

I feel like this was just a fantastic horror novel it doesn't really focus super hard on the horror aspects it's more so the horror of this family the horror of their behavior rather than the actual kind of Blood and Guts of it and I feel like it just delivered all around on what I specifically want from a horror novel I can't recommend it enough.

It also had great social commentary and as Mariana Enriquez like always delivers on those aspects it doesn't feel like in your face it all feels very important to the overarching story I always just feel more enlightened and more aware of certain things after I read one of her stories.

I picked this up at the library because I had recently read our wives Under the Sea which is this author's First full length novel and I absolutely loved it and I was curious about her short Story collection and wondering whether it would have kind of similar themes and similar Vibes because I've said time and time again on this channel I am really content with reading the same thing over and over as long as it's something that I love.

It definitely is more of a character Focus book than a plot Focus book we do have like a darker sort of overarching plot to it but I wasn't really all that invested in it but nonetheless I still really enjoyed it.

I just didn't feel the writing was all that strong I didn't feel like the social commentary was really there horror has always been a way to use social commentary or to raise awareness to certain topics within society and for some reason I just felt like what this book was trying to say just did not feel impactful whatsoever. I found it somewhat hard to follow at times and hard to Envision and that might just be my own particular issue with reading it at the end of the day I don't think this book was particularly memorable for me.

A lot of these stories focus on womenhood and motherhood in particular and I found it to be an incredibly refreshing collection of tales especially the stories that focused around pregnancy and what the human body goes through and really internal thoughts and worries that women can have in these sorts of really kind of vulnerable moments.

There's just a whole heap of mystery to this and I feel that with especially the particular length of this novel it just really did deliver on those sort of Gothic Vibes that I really enjoy and I'm really looking forward to picking up the second book in the series and if you're someone who's interested in getting into reading the gothic hor genre I think this would be a great place to start.

This collection mainly focuses on women's stories and exploring their experiences within Society within love their sort of introspective views on things and I have to say that my favorite short story from this collection was the Great Awakening. If you're like myself and you really enjoy reading short story collections I certainly recommend that you check this one out especially if you enjoy the themes of like Obsession isolation women's roles in society's kind of reflective introspective sort of thoughts and surreal literary fiction this is definitely the one for you.