A review by ellenrhudy
Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories by Abbey Mei Otis

3.0

Sad that I didn’t like this more. The conceits driving the stories are so wild that for about half the book they were enough to keep me going — especially loved the moon kids story. There’s never plot or character development though, and it began to feel like I was reading one half-formed story after another. Someone else on here wrote that the shorter stories tend to work better, and that was true for me...the longer they got, the more I noticed the flaws of the stories. I’d love to see this sort of world building coupled with more plot or a fuller sense of character, rather than just getting place and voice.