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Give Me Your Heart: Tales Of Mystery And Suspense (2011)

by Joyce Carol Oates(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547385463 (ISBN13: 9780547385464)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Joyce Carol Oates might simply be the best writer of the dark and wet that we have. She doesn't need any compliments from this little reviewer as to her phenomenal writing ability, and those of us who enjoy a dabble in the realm of blood and guts are lucky that she descends the rickety steps from literature to genre fiction. Out of her formidable oeuvre (over 40 novels?! Dozens of short story collections?!), I've only read two novels, this collection, and some other random short stories that inevitably end up in Best Stories of the Year-type anthologies. This needs to be remedied immediately. In short, these stories crackle and provided me with one of the few reading experiences where suspense stories actually had me IN SUSPENSE. There were many instances where I was... more afraid to find out what would happen next, which is as high a compliment as I can proffer and therefore this gets a rare 5-star review from me.
review 2: JCO can be hit or miss. This was a miss. There were a couple well crafted stories. There was no mystery or suspense. The theme seemed to be be victim hood. Naturally it wound up quite violent when dealing with this theme. Many stories seemed dialed in to her other stories and recycled parts. I'm used to her unusual writing style but a few stories were so confusing I had to go back to see if it was the same story. I'm giving it a 2 because there were a couple ish stories I really enjoyed and wished they had been longer. less

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