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Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
by Margaret Atwood
4.5 stars
My second Atwood short story collection did not disappoint, of course! Stone Mattress is described as a collection of tales about that one person we’d all really like to kill... and it certainly is very dark and I LOVED IT.
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Atwood’s acerbic wit is present on every page, I honestly find her hilarious when she writes a ridiculous, arrogant male protagonist and you can almost hear her cackling and giving him the finger between the lines! She reveals the dark side in us all, our desire for vengeance, redemption, and retribution.
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Fans of The Robber Bride will be overjoyed to revisit Ros, Tony and Charis and the dreaded Zenia in Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth; if you’ve ever fancied getting away with murder on a cruise, the titular story Stone Mattress will help you out; and The Freeze-Dried Groom will put you off storage unit auctions for life! As well as those three, Alphinland, The Dead Hand Loves You, and Torching the Dusties were the three other 5 star tales in this collection for me! And the other three were two 4s and a 3 so this is definitely one of the most solid collections I’ve read.
My second Atwood short story collection did not disappoint, of course! Stone Mattress is described as a collection of tales about that one person we’d all really like to kill... and it certainly is very dark and I LOVED IT.
.
Atwood’s acerbic wit is present on every page, I honestly find her hilarious when she writes a ridiculous, arrogant male protagonist and you can almost hear her cackling and giving him the finger between the lines! She reveals the dark side in us all, our desire for vengeance, redemption, and retribution.
.
Fans of The Robber Bride will be overjoyed to revisit Ros, Tony and Charis and the dreaded Zenia in Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth; if you’ve ever fancied getting away with murder on a cruise, the titular story Stone Mattress will help you out; and The Freeze-Dried Groom will put you off storage unit auctions for life! As well as those three, Alphinland, The Dead Hand Loves You, and Torching the Dusties were the three other 5 star tales in this collection for me! And the other three were two 4s and a 3 so this is definitely one of the most solid collections I’ve read.