holmesstorybooks's review
3.0
This was a surprise!
Sometimes cheeky, sometimes filthy, sometimes sweet and sentimental, this collection was light-hearted and readable. This collection features authors from Canada (Turtle Island), Aboriginal Indigenous authors from Australia, Maori authors from New Zealand, Samoa and more.
I really enjoyed that each author had the opportunity to contribute multiple pieces of short fiction -- it felt like I got more of a taste for their writing style than from just one single piece. Some of these pieces had a great sense of humour, some of them were based in lore, some of them were sexy, some of them were intimate, and each were only a page or two in length.
I loved this collection most of all because I was able to find some authors whose writing style I really gravitated towards. I loved Tiffany Midge's poems, Marilyn Dumont's poetry, Gloria Bird, Velvet Black, Joy Harjo, Daniel David Moses... the list goes on.
I loved diving into the stories without knowing anything about them and just reading them as they were on the page. I'd squeal in delight if it turned out to be a queer story and smirk when some young, plucky 20-something year-old man got his just desserts.
This was a super easy collection to read before bed and I'm really happy I found lots of authors to read from.
Sometimes cheeky, sometimes filthy, sometimes sweet and sentimental, this collection was light-hearted and readable. This collection features authors from Canada (Turtle Island), Aboriginal Indigenous authors from Australia, Maori authors from New Zealand, Samoa and more.
I really enjoyed that each author had the opportunity to contribute multiple pieces of short fiction -- it felt like I got more of a taste for their writing style than from just one single piece. Some of these pieces had a great sense of humour, some of them were based in lore, some of them were sexy, some of them were intimate, and each were only a page or two in length.
I loved this collection most of all because I was able to find some authors whose writing style I really gravitated towards. I loved Tiffany Midge's poems, Marilyn Dumont's poetry, Gloria Bird, Velvet Black, Joy Harjo, Daniel David Moses... the list goes on.
I loved diving into the stories without knowing anything about them and just reading them as they were on the page. I'd squeal in delight if it turned out to be a queer story and smirk when some young, plucky 20-something year-old man got his just desserts.
This was a super easy collection to read before bed and I'm really happy I found lots of authors to read from.
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