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Out There by Kate Folk

3 reviews

aileron's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

3.5

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anarchist_al's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This collection of short stories is the feminist take on horror of my dreams. Each female main character felt like an exploration and exaggeration of an aspect pf myself. I understood their impulses and descents into madness. I felt their pain and their sorrow and their resignation. Even the very few stories with a man as the main character felt feminist, focusing on universal experiences like the inherent fallacies of your own memory, or taking the concept of being swallowed up by an abusive relationship to the extreme. Lots of body horror and gaslighting and dating gone wrong and I loved it all.

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beccam22's review against another edition

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dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Read this if you like:
🖤🪞Black Mirror
🌀🪄 A.S. King
🔪💉Light Horror

Out there - 5 ⭐️
The last woman on earth -5⭐️
Heart seek brain -4⭐️
The void wife -3⭐️
Shelter - 4⭐️
The head in the floor - 2⭐️
Tahoe - 2⭐️
The bone ware - 5⭐️
Doe eyes - 2⭐️
The houses beating heart - 2 ⭐️
A scale model of gull point - 4⭐️
Dating a somnambulist -2 ⭐️
Moist house - 4 ⭐️
The turkey rumble - 3⭐️
Big Sur - 5⭐️

Going off average of the stories this is a 4⭐️ for me but the 5s really stood out and the writing was brilliant

I really wanted Roger and Meg from the story Big Sur to the the miss match couple from Out There, I wanted a happy ending for them instead of the happy ending for him. Im also curious when in Megs timeline the first story was because they had a second wave of blots that Meg never seemed to mention

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