A review by tregina
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic by Guillermo Samperio, Chris N. Brown, Amparo Dávila, José Luis Zárate, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Iliana Estañol, Yussel Dardón, Donaji Olmedo, Queta Navagomez, Eduardo Mendoza, Alberto Chimal, Mónica Lavín, Carmen Rioja, Ana Gloria Álvarez Pedrajo, Amélie Olaiz, Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Horacio Sentíes Madrid, Karen Chacek, Agustín Cadena, Bernardo Fernández, Bruno Estañol, Hernán Lara Zavala, Liliana Blum, Jesús Ramírez Bermudez, María Isabel Aguirre, Pepe Rojo, Claudia Guillén, Edmee Pardo, Óscar de la Borbolla, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Gerardo Sifuentes, Rene Roquet, Lucía Abdó, Beatriz Escalante, Ana Clavel

3.0

Like most books of short stories, the quality was variable, perhaps more highly variable than usual for me. I tended to like the stories more as I went on, though I'm not sure whether that's because the stories got stronger, or because I got more used to the nuances of the way they were being told. There was overall a kind of gentleness to the style, and the stories were often (though not universally) neither violent nor intense; they also tended to have a very specific voice and point of view. Overall I'm not sure it was a strong collection, but for me it was an interesting one.