Adrienne’s Reviews > Women of the Night > Status Update

I'd give Nancy Holder's story a 4 because it's beautifully written.

"Food Chain" was just weird...the "milk of contentment" just was strange. Most of all there were waaaayyyy too many characters introduced to have any sense of what was going on in the first several paragraphs.

The Cookie Lady more of an act of vampirism, it had more the flavor of a witch story or a ghost story, with a bit of Hansel and Gretel thrown in for good measure.

Liked the concept of the second story a lot. Still not enthused with the treatment of female characters though... apparently all we are are sudectresses that are alternately damsels in distress at the same time. Always beholden to our base need as women to find out man *eye roll*

Loved Neil Gaiman's story although it echoes the first. Female vampire seductress... I liked the spin on the Snow White story but I was hoping for a little more story than female vampire uses sex...

Ok so nice introduction but then I realize that the first four stories are by men and the closing story is also by a man; but then again this collectionbamis also curates by a man. I feel like this says something about female driven fiction....