A review by alexiacambaling
salt slow by Julia Armfield

adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I picked up this book because I wanted to read some horror books for October and while this is a book of short stories which could be categorized as horror, I did not find it scary. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The short stories in this book are excellent, surreal, and weird. All of them are about women and it's kind of feminist, but I wouldn't call it an explicitly feminist collection. It's about feral women. It's a great collection and I recommend it but it's also a bit hard for me to describe. I can say though that it's the first short story collection that got me so hooked, I just went through it in a few hours.

If you like stories about teenage girls turning into monsters, lovers turning to stone, dead girlfriends returning, and rock bands with feral fanbases, I highly recommend this collection.