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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0873808
EAN num: 9780758207531
ISBN number: 0758207530
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: August 01, 2004
Publishing house: Kensington
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ok, this sucks(I'm about 1/2 way through). there's no pretty way to put it. i don't know how this got published. when i saw that Zane was a contributor i knew it was garbage, but gave it the benefit of a doubt. I only hope the subsequent 'horror' anthology gets serious consideration after this... and has some real horror in it
update..
i finished, barely. it was torturous for sure. but one story scared the **** out of me, lol. I'll let you figure out which one. :-)
happy reading
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I loved all the stories in this book. Personal recommendations are Bras Coupe and Plaything because they deal with race relations and a societal issue that isn't discussed too much. Looking forward to reading the other installments.
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I got this book because I was so impressed by the 2nd volume. I was NOT IMPRESSED with this one... AT ALL!! I really tried to like it because I want to support our Black authors but this collection was just... well... bad. There were only a few stories that caught and kept my attention and a few I even skipped!
Didn't do that with the 2nd volume! I don't know if this one was an experiment or what but it wasn't good at all. Not even close. I will get Volume 3 and I can only hope that it's in the same spirit as #2. Save your money on this one.
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I love a good horror story, and of course suspense is welcome, but I didn't get a whole lot of it in this book. Zane should never write horror, its not her cup of tea, I skipped around reading certain stories by names I knew and then tried to read the rest some of which I couldn't. He Who Takes The Pain, Hair Dreams, Wild Chcolate are a few of the good ones. But I was left hungry for more...like they just cut off at the good part. My favorites are Siren Song, If the Walls Could Talk, and of course Danger Word by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due...and yes Brandon Massey's Grandad's Garage. some of the stories aren't really horror, but are worth reading.
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I'm three stories into it, and I'm afraid, I may not finish it. That's not true. I will finish it and only because I had not finishing things I pay for,
Tired is how I'd describe Zane's "Resident Evil" - the vampirism was yawn-inducing and the sex was tossed in because without it there's no story. Unfortunately with it, it reads a step below a Penthouse Forum Letter. Characters who seem dumber than a box of hair, and yet manage to have massive student loans. Thanks for not creating any characters would could actually get behind. Cringe-worthy is how I would described it - "I ran out of story and plot, how about we throw in some three-way sex." Could you at least make it ... I dunno - hot? It was also terribly long for not actually finishing, with extra "backstories" thrown in to pad it out. The scariest part was that Zane makes a living at this.
Robert Fleming's "But Beautiful and Terrifying" had promise - as outsider tales in Japan are always interesting, but it just limped into an ending - sort of like "Well, I can't think of anything else, so I'll just have the character screaming for a bit." Are you serious? What's the point of all of the racism sidebars and jabs about the military not being welcoming, when you don't even bother continuing with that storyline? Like the previous "story", it just ended instead of giving a resolution. Heavy handed in the front, lack of any real character development, and an abrupt ending make it seem very rushed. As a reader, it's pretty insulting to have an unfinished story thrown at you.
I'm half-way through the third story "He Who Takes Away The Pain" (which, again, starts off strongly - but it's not over yet) and I noted with real horror that I have 17 more stories after this one.
I can't recommend this book so far, and I promise to come back when I've finished it to give a final verdict. Anthologies should start off with the strongest pieces, not who has the biggest name. Quality should be a marker for being included, and I'm still waiting to be wowed by anything close to quality or strength.
Which pains me most about this, is that it's an anthology touted to be by Black Writers, and the best of the best. It's not - Lord, it can't be - and especially if the stories stay stereotypical and unimaginative. I'm a Black Horror Writer, and if this is the best that my peers can offer, I'll leave the moniker of "Black Writer" with them.
Just sign me - Horror Writer, and we'll leave it at that.
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