A review by lostcupofstars
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

3.0

Honestly this had the most promising start. I was sure this would be a 5⭐️ read 😭
That first story had me IN and I have no doubt I will remember it for a really really long time.

Top stories: 
Angelita Unearthed
The Well

I then encountered a story (the only story to explicitly mention a person’s race, actually) with a black man introduced only to meet a (heavily insinuated) horrific end and that 5 ⭐️ started looking mighty 4⭐️

There were a few stories after this with some really good ideas and themes but none that really matched the energy this started with. And then I met a really long story with transphobic language and that 4⭐️ became a 3⭐️

This collection had so much potential. But ultimately it was far more tragic than it was horrific. I left a lot of those stories feeling sad just because so many horrible things were touched on but served no purpose. Barely even as plot devices, it felt like they were put in just to make the reader go ‘omg ew’ or ‘omg wth???’ 

It just wasn’t the ‘horror’ collection I was hoping for. But those two stand out stories will 100% stick with me.
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