e-Audio, 09:52:34
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Marisa Blake
Release Date: September 6, 2022
Published by: Hachette Audio
Read from: September 14-16, 2022
Anthology
Source: Library’s Libby
TW: Dismemberment, Blood, Violence
For Readers Interested In: Horror, Monsters, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, YAFifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable monsters
From zombies to cannibals to death incarnate, this cross-genre anthology offers something for every monster lover. In Our Shadows Have Claws, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are stolen from their beds by “el viejo de la bolsa” while a military dictatorship steals their parents; and anyone you love, absolutely anyone, might be a shapeshifter waiting to hunt.
The worlds of these stories are dark but also magical ones, where a ghost-witch can make your cheating boyfriend pay, bullies are brought to their knees by vicious wolf-gods, a jar of fireflies can protect you from the reality-warping magic of a bruja—and maybe you’ll even live long enough to tell the tale. Set across Latin America and its diaspora, this collection offers bold, imaginative stories of oppression, grief, sisterhood, first love, and empowerment.
Full contributor list: Chantel Acevedo, Courtney Alameda, Julia Alvarez, Ann Dávila Cardinal, M. García Peña, Racquel Marie, Gabriela Martins, Yamile Saied Méndez, Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, Claribel A. Ortega, Amparo Ortiz, Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Ari Tison, and Alexandra Villasante.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I never know how to review anthologies. No one has the time to review every single story, you can’t really say you loved it when there’s different stories by different people, and do you count it as read or a DNF if you DNF some of the stories?
So I think the easiest way to talk about them is to look at the ones I did like first. When I was looking at all the authors, I assumed I would like all of them. Alot of the authors are ones I’ve read before, so this is another reason I was excited to get to this. But the biggest surprise was the fact that the authors I’ve never read are the ones whom I gave 5 or 4.5 stars to. So basically I went back and looked at their back catalog because man, if they can write a short story that way, I’m hella interested in seeing what they can do with a full story. Dismembered by Ann Dávila Cardinal was my favorite of all of them. It seemed like a story I’d heard before, but just told in a different way, as most myths are. In short it was a very cool story.
On the opposite side, there are some stories in this that I didn’t care for. However, I didn’t DNF any of them or anything like that, so I thought that was a win. There wasn’t that many tho. I won’t say which ones I didn’t like, because I’m not going to do a full review on each story, but I will say I took off for things like not being scary enough or if I was just bored or something. But again, that’s just me and my opinion.
This book overall was really good tho. To get my rating, I rated each story as I read them, and then I averaged all of them together. It gave me a good idea of what I felt about the book as a whole. Am I the only one that rates anthologies like this? What ways do you all do it? Let me know in the comments!
Overall, I give this
