About this title: In this new collection in the vein of "Prom Nights from Hell," some of today's hottest authors--Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfield, Justine Larbalestier, Laurie Faria Stolarz, and Gabrielle Zevin--contribute stories of love gone supernaturally wrong.
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Date Published: 11/25/2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061443046ISBN:0061443042
Description: In this new collection in the vein of "Prom Nights from Hell, " some of today's hottest authors--Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfield, Justine Larbalestier, Laurie Faria Stolarz, and Gabrielle Zevin--contribute stories of love gone supernaturally wrong. read more
"Surprisingly good. Out of the five stories I liked four. That's good for an anthology. In contrast to others, I enjoyed the Westerfeld-story the most. But I have to admit, it stands out a bit, because it is the only Science Fiction story in the midst of urban fantasy: In a future classroom students attend "scarcity class" and have to chose a self-experience project lasting for two weeks. It is a future in which hunger, illness, long-distance between places, exhaustion and other problems have been successfully solved, but teenagers are expected to understand what ailed their ancestors in old times. So some try out classics like influenza or old-fashioned transport (boats), but the heroine takes on going without hormone stabilizers and and the hero tests what it is like to sleep. I don't know why, but I liked both the setting and the couple immensely. The second best story in my opinion was the selkie-themed love-story by Melissa Marr."
"I had been bugging my local library about this for ages, I was really keen to see what these authors would write about for this one I was slightly worried however concerned about the "love" theme. I'm not a big fan of romances, but suprisingly I acutally enjoyed it imensely.
Sleeping with the spirit: I have had some bad experiences with stories about spirits, i seem to have an unnatural talent for picking the worst of the crop. Yet this proved different, I can't say it's my favorite story of all time but it was good in it's own way, I'm just not a fan of literature involving ghosts.
Stupid Perfect World: As usual Scott Westerfeld delivers, his amazing talent of story telling really shows in this simple yet amazing tale, he has an amazing talent for writing about futurisitic worlds, this one in particular would have to be among my favorites of his, different and insanly perfect yet as the same time utterly crazy. Different and is one of the few stories in this collection to feature a happy ending. One I was completely pleased with.
Thinner Than Water: Brilliant, frightening and of course quirky. It had a very different feel from the other stories and truly it was one of the stand outs in my opinon. It was interesting and of course kind of unique in it's own way. I was interested in how her family acted all innocent but they knew of magic and means in which they could tie her to the town. It was truly an interesting and left me thinking.
Fan Fictions: One word sums this one up: Weird. I was so confused, I couldn't understand what had happened, and how it happened, it may just be me but the ending threw a perfectly good story into absoloute chaos. It was well written but the ending just annoyed me - plain and simply.
Love Struck: Melissa Marr is fast becoming one of my favorite authors, she is proving that she has a talent for intriguing her readers, I actually after this found myself researching Selkies, I was absoloutely intrigued about these creatures! I would be interested in reading something similar to this if she were ever to write something along these lines again.
Overall, different, unique, dark and of course full of suprises, this collection of short stories by these talented authors proves to be an intriguing and quirky read.
"Not usually into all these anthologies but I knew some of the authors who contributed so yeah...
One of my fav stories in the book "Sleeping with the spirit" by Laurie Faria Stolarz the first story in the book is about a girl who moves into a new house and there is a ghost who is trying to get her to help him to leave the human world, or whatever it's called when ghosts remain in the world. Well she ends up helping him but also falling in love with him. In the end he leaves her to move on to the afterlife or whatever, you know what I mean.
"Stupid perfect world" by Scott Westerfeld is set in the future and in a class students have to study an olden-day thing for their Scarity class. Well I guy picks sleep (it's in the future and they don't sleep) and a girl, who has a crush on him, helps him and she studies teenage hormones. Well the guy ends up dreaming about the girl and falls in love with her.
I found the third story "Thinner than water" by Justine Larbalestier a little spooky. Well it is set in the past and they have this day called 'Lammas day' and its where a guy picks a girl to be with for a year. Well the protagonist Jeannie is picked by Robbie but her parents and the rest of the town don't like this choice because they think he's a fairy and evil. Well a day before a year, the town and Jeannie's parents kill Robbie. Jeannie is upset because she really loved him. She ends up marrying another guy. Two years later after Robbie's death he returns and Jeannie learns the truth that he is a fairy and Robbie wants Jeannie to join him but she doesn't want to and Robbie obviously lets her go because he once promised her that he wouldn't make her do what she didn't want to.
The fourth story was "Fan fictions" by Gabrielle Zevin. It's about a rejected girl who falls in love with a new guy called Aaron. But Aaron is immortal. When she tells her friends about him they don't believe that he is real because she was the only one that really saw him. Everyone then thinks she's crazy because there is an exact same boy in a book that her librarian suggested her to read who was also immortal. She ends up in the assylum and writes a letter to him with the lines that are also the same first lines in the book, "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who belive in love and those who don't I belive in love..."
The last story was "Love struck" by Melissa Marr. It was about a girl called Alana who is trapped by a selchie. She is bound to him by his coat and falls deeply in love with him and is requited. The selchie's brother tells Alana that all selchies miss the sea so she breaks the bond.
Overall the collection was good. I enjoyed it and it wasn't at all confusing."
"Once again, this is a collection of short stories, so I feel I must rate them separately.
Sleeping with the Sprint: 3 stars. Not really much to say about it, actually. I didn't really hate it, I didn't really love it. Stupid Perfect World: 4 stars. Scott Westerfeld like the idea of a too-perfect future, it seems. And the idea of Scaricty class is just genius, in a strange kind of way. Thinner than Water: 2.5 stars. Okay, so this story wasn't boring. But it was infuriating . Those parents were messed up. Even if, really, Jeannie fell in love with Robbie a bit to quickly for it really to be called "love," if MY parents gathered a mob of angry villagers, stormed my house, held me down and brutally murdered the man I that I decided I loved, then put a geas on me so that I couldn't leave the town which I had always hated, I think I would literally go find a large blunt object like a hammer or a metal stature of a pig, and kill my family and the other participants of the mob in cold blood with death my blunt-force trama. Damn the consequences. Because, really, compared to that, how could jail be that much worse? Fan Fictions: 2 stars. A girl goes crazy after dating a book character. But it wasn't written in a way that made you think it had much of a point. Love Struck: 4 stars. Okay, maybe it deserves a little less, but I was very pleased with the intelligence of Alana. Most heroines in this type of story would be unbelievably dumb, and this this case she kind of reminded me of myself. (Though some I know would argue that those are the same thing.)"
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