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Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

4 reviews

catapocalypse's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This collection was quite a ride. There were many messy people, places, and things throughout. Oftentimes, a story was a character study set in a world with peculiarities which themselves could hold an ocean's depth of story behind them. I was unsure of things at first, but honestly, I expect that a reread could bump it up to a five-star rating. There's just so much to unpack; it would take a very close reading, like studying scripture.

My favorites of the bunch were the first and final stories: "Summer People" and "Light," respectively.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

mlewis's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Slavery, Lesbophobia, and Classism

mle11's review

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The world-building is very adventurous in these short stories, sometimes to the point where I couldn't tell what was going on. At its best, these stories are imaginative and very immersive and read like a mystery we're unraveling. At worst, they were kind of nonsense that would only make sense on a second or third read. My favorite stories were The Summer People and Two Houses.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Incest, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

erraticeldandil's review against another edition

4.0

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

Rating: 4⭐️

I liked this book on more on more of an intellectual level than an...enjoyment level. This is the closest I've found to the literary fantasy that I've been looking for for a while. In effect it examines the reality of fantasy and science fiction worlds and the ""human"" component of them. It asks: How does the altered reality change how beings in that world feel and act? 

It is also about secrets. In every story there is a central relationship(s) that is featured heavily in the story and all contain secrets kept between the two parties, that are often kept from the reader as much as from the secretee until the very end. This leads into my personal feelings about the book. Both these themes are really interesting and well applied but the distance that the characters keep from everyone in the story, even the readers, makes it hard to really feel for them even though the stories are relatively long for short stories. This isn't inherently bad, but I prefer books that allow me to really inhabit a characters reality and mind and the distance was a bit jarring.

That being said, I'm still really glad I read it, just because it is a way of storytelling that I rarely see in SFF. My favorite story was definitely "The Lesson". It was a lot more heartfelt and genuine feeling than a lot of the others and I really loved the main characters relationship.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia and Xenophobia