There were a couple of things that kept jumping out at me as overarching themes. Let me know what you think about that in the comments. Whenever I read short story collections and I see themes recurring again and again I always wonder whether that is a conscious choice by the author and something used to deliberately tie the collection together, or whether that cropping up in stories is just reflective of the authors' life experiences and who they are as a person. The stories are in a very short space of time able to give you this intense burst of emotional connection to characters that are either very human or very intentionally NOT, but allows you to empathise with them all the same. There are a lot of turns of phrase that I lingered on because they were either quite romantic or just particularly lovely to read. The way this was written was somehow poetic without being super overly flowery and really evoked feelings imagery-wise of Angela Carter's descriptives and writing style.
Honestly this was so beautiful there wasn't a single story in here that didn't wow me. I'll start by saying everything in this book was gorgeous.
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