L. Lawson’s Reviews > Battleborn > Status Update

DNFing this one. Reads like literary fiction paint-by-numbers. “Establishment readers expect x, y, and z, so I’ll stuff these stories full of those things.” I’ve only read 2.5 of these stories, but enough to know these have been done to death and aren’t for me.

The first story, though light on details and that discussed her father’s role in Charles Manson’s ring, was unsettling. I purposefully avoid stories about real-life murderers (including folks related to them) and I was not stoked to have been blindsided by one, however well-written and tangential. Kinda fucking mad about it tbh, but I’ll give the collection one more story to be fair to the rest of it.