Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC! Really enjoyed this short story collection overall, although a couple I did skip.

Although a few of them didn’t provide the creepy, gross ick I wanted from a body horror collection, most of them were successful in making me squeamish in one way or another! Some of my favourites were  Apples where a woman is suddenly imbued with the awful gift of hearing men’s thoughts, Bob-a-Job, which honestly I’m not sure what was going on but it was dystopian, gross as hell and great, and Ghost Kitchen by Francine Toon, where a woman is followed by a watery curse.

I also really enjoyed The Smiling African Uncle, where Black and brown immigrants are subjected to microaggressions x 10000, and any who crack are deported. Only those who remain the good, grateful immigrant can stay. But as much as I enjoyed it, it didn’t seem to fit with the others - though racism is a horror unto itself.

I was a bit disappointed by the Mariana Enríquez story, since short horror is right in her wheelhouse, but Daisies was underwhelming. This was also the only translated story in the collection - there could have been a few more to get more worldly horror involved.