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not sure about sweet lenore

loved 18

really liked this wasn't expecting the ending. It ended abruptly and it was kinda annoying

once I got passed the first story, I have to say I am enjoying these stories.

It certainly was "twisted"

I just completed Soul Seer. I am not sure how I feel about it.....

Metronome was seriously creepy. I wish it hadn't been the last story - Bloodlines would have been a much nicer ending note.

Bloodlines was stunningly beautiful. I'm still in tears.

I liked the beginning of I am Serna - Damon was an interesting enough character to be part of a full novel. Didn't like the end. I wasn't expecting it, though, which I guess is a good thing?

Little Tchotchkes was a delight from start to finish, and just kept surprising me.

In the Eyes of the Beholder had an interesting storyline that kept me guessing, but it felt a bit overreaching. At times it felt like a collection of disparate elements that didn't quite come together.

All I Want for Christmas was brilliant. The epistolary style works really well for stories like this - it makes the big reveal feel more shocking to me. The narrator's voice was so very much like that of a 13-year-old girl - kudos to the author, because that's not an easy thing to write, particularly for a man. And the sting was quite deliciously twisted.

Suburban Zombie was short and sweet, and literally made me LOL.

Truth or Dare was good - very atmospheric - although once again I guessed the twist. My mind is twisted, I guess. :)

Not sure how I feel about Sweet Lenora. I enjoyed the story but I'm undecided on the ending - it seemed abrupt. I hadn't figured out the twist, although I was prepared for various other things, from Josef being Joe Stalin to Charlie being a creature of the night of higher rank than Jakob. :)

Number 18 was a decent enough story, although I'd guessed what was going to happen. I wish they'd decided to call this anthology Twisted or something slightly less obvious than what it's called. KNOWING each story has a twist makes them less shocking when they come.

I skipped Voices of the Soul as I have it as an ebook (and am planning on rereading Rene Folsom's Soul Seers series soon) but I remember it was an A* read - one of my top five books this year.