I love short stories, i love science fiction, fantasy and weird stuff. So when i saw this book in a goodreads giveaway, of course i entered it. I was more than pleased when i got the email telling me i’d won a copy. I was super happy when it came through my letter box about a week later, and started reading it as soon as i finished my previous book.

The first thing i loved about this book is that the stories are short enough that i could read one in its entirety on the bus to work. It was the perfect book to carry around with me to read at random opportunities. It has 24 stories over 160 pages, so lots to read in a small enough book that fitted easily into my bag.

With titles like, ‘Haiku Short, Parakeet Prawns, Konnichiwa Peter’ and ‘What Does H₂O Feel Like to the Tadpoles?’ i was more than eager to get reading and see what these stories held. I liked them all–there wasn’t one i didn’t enjoy.

I’m just flicking through the book now, and i can’t decide which stories to mention and praise, because there really was something great about each of them. Some of them were meaningful and poignant, some of them were comical and strange, and some of them were all of those things.

All of them. All of these stories made me smile, laugh, roll my eyes, ponder and help me escape on my dull journey to work. I will definitely be looking into more books from the Liars’ League.

A longer review can be read at my book blog: Marvel at Words.