Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
Having loved Harrison’s Cackle I was excited to read these short stories. While the stories capture all the aspects of this author’s writing that I like (the keen understanding of women and how they feel, what we are socialized to feel and do, the anger and brokenness that can stem from that) the narratives were somewhat predictable. Each of the four stories tackles a complicated aspect of womanhood with the horror tropes acting as a great foil, but the outcome of the stories was obvious from the first few sentences. Granted this gets fairly meta in that the horror of womanhood isnt the big jump scares, but the non-stop drudgery of existing in a world where you are always the “other.” However, if you like your horror to have an element of suspense or mystery, these are not that kind of tale.
Published by: Berkeley Publishing Group Release Date: 06 December 2022
1 comment:
I have never read anything by Rachel Harrison. I'm glad you enjoyed these short stories.
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