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The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt
2.75
medium-paced

I feel like this book didn't resonate with me because I'm probably not its target audience.

There are some very cool concepts in this book, and some very experimental ways of writing and I did really enjoy that part of it. 

The thing that really didn't work for me is what feels like an overarching obsession with pregnancy. Basically every story has some section about someone longing to be pregnant or getting someone pregnant, or reflecting on a pregnancy. It works in the plot of some of the shorts but there are many more shorts where it really feels like it comes out of nowhere and adds nothing to the plot. In the end this theme really makes all the characters blend together into one, unlikeable, sad, baby obsessed, middle class white suburban woman. And these characters are also all in the stereotypical troupe of paranoid woman who thinks the world is constantly out to get her. I get that this is supposed to play into the psychological panic of the characters in these situations but the way that its written also makes it sound irrational and overreactionary which makes me feel much less sympathetic and almost annoyed by the characters.