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Yellowcake (2011)

by Margo Lanagan(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1742374786 (ISBN13: 9781742374789)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Allen & Unwin

review 1: Not quite why I was hoping for. Margo Lanagan writes strange and often disturbing stuff, and this set was no exception. She writes really well at the sentence level and really has a knack for creating a unique voice at the first-person level, which is often difficult to do. Still, the main hangup I have with her writing is that she often spends so much time crafting an internal narrative that she fails to adequately build the strange worlds in which her characters live. Some of this stuff made little sense, and one story I read in a kind of daze it was so cloudy. She really needs a whole novel to adequately build her worlds. I also don't know why her work is marketed to teens. Due to the dense nature of her stories and the experimental narratives, I doubt teens would grab ... morethis stuff, and primarily because the topics she examines are more adult in nature, even if some of her characters are teens.
review 2: I'm quite torn over my review of this compilation of short stories. Did I enjoy reading them? Yes. Were they beautifully written? Yes. Were they compelling? Yes. And yet for some reason I was left wanting. At the end of each of the ten stories I was left feeling kind of numb, wishing there had been some marvellous revelation that had me reeling. But there wasn't, there was just a beautifully crafted story. I'm not trying to be negative, I think my review of this book has more to do with my innate desire for all short stories to have a twist at the end. less

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