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Strange Medicine by Mike Russell
4.0

I received a free Kindle copy of this book from the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

Strange Medicine is a collection of short stories that are all a little bit odd and whimsical in nature. From mimes, men who are really birds to doctors with no brains, this book is just a wide range of creepy, fantastical and WTF moments but I really enjoyed it! At first, I felt a bit discombobulated as I'm not used to short story collections but most of these were the perfect length and gave me exactly what I wanted from them. Even though I didn't have a whole load of time with the characters, I did feel myself connecting to them such as the mime, the doctor and Shish.

I think this would suit fans of Neil Gaiman - it's not quite as fantastical but it's the same brand of weird and wonderful. My favourite stories were Mime, Brain and Shish.