clockless's review against another edition
3.0
This is a really nice collection of vignettes but it doesn't have the feel of an arc like you have in something like The House on Mango Street. That's really the only thing that's missing, because really good idea driving you through each of the segments (I don't think they are substantial enough to be called stories). The pieces are good, it just needs some kind of underlying structure or maybe connective tissue bridging the gap from one story to the next.
ultrabookgeek's review
3.0
If you like lyrical writing mixed with a deep curiosity about what connects humans to this life (or the next) read Nika Harper, she writes like a beautiful poem.
teeny's review
5.0
Nika Harper's collection of short stories are tales of being taken over, controlled by another soul, an echo of another person. You cannot change another person, only influence them into changing themselves, so if you were to be taken over by another person you would have no control over them or yourself. No choice, no freedom. No hope.
Nika's stories are beautifully written and haunting as heck. They allow you to look into the mindset of another person who can be entirely different from yourself and experience how they think and feel, all the while experiencing a sense of the uncanny that sticks with you.
Nika's stories are beautifully written and haunting as heck. They allow you to look into the mindset of another person who can be entirely different from yourself and experience how they think and feel, all the while experiencing a sense of the uncanny that sticks with you.
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