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Carregando... The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023de Lisa Unger (Editor), Steph Cha (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, edited by Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha, is an excellent collection of the past year's short stories. Every story is strong, though like any anthology some will appeal to you more than others. Some readers who think of more involved or complex stories as simply being a particularly difficult crime to solve may be less engaged, these stories for the most part have their complexity in the display of human nature and what drives some of us. In other words, these tend toward deeper rather than simple characters solving complex mysteries. Though there are still some wonderful mysteries along those lines, you just have to deal with a more rounded character. Because I don't read a lot of contemporary short stories unless they're in a book, whether a single author or multiple, I particularly enjoy this series. I also approach them from two compatible but slightly different perspectives. First, like any reader, I am reading for enjoyment of the story itself. I think this is what most readers mean when they say a story is strong or weak, they mean it did or did not appeal to them. My second perspective is one that, unfortunately, is less common (though not uncommon) which is enjoyment of the form, of the elements that make a short story a short story. This allows me to find enjoyment in stories where the plot might appeal to me less even though the story is well written. If you like mysteries and suspense stories that rely as much, or more, on looking within a character, you will find a lot here to appreciate. If you like good stories and aren't put off by too much character development (I can't understand why, but some people genuinely fall into this group: "just give me the story, don't make me work to also understand the character") you will also find a lot to like here. If you want the facts, just the facts, well, you might be a little disappointed. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy," writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introduction. The transporting stories in this year's The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those who exist on the fringe of our society and want more than what life has dealt them: A haunted veteran turned career criminal is on the run. An injured fighter turned bouncer seeks vengeance for his lost love. An assassin on his last job finds himself questioning his life choices and breaks all the rules to understand his final victim. By turns thrilling and enlightening, each story, according to Unger, "will have you holding your breath, flipping the pages, will leave you thinking about people and why they do the dark, dangerous, frightening things that they do." The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 includes Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier * William Boyle * S. A. Cosby * Jacqueline Freimor * James A. Hearn * Ladee Hubbard * A. J. Jacono * Adam Meyer * Silvia Moreno-Garcia * Walter Mosley * Leigh Newman * Joyce Carol Oates * Margaret Randall * Annie Reed * Anthony Neil Smith * Faye Snowden * Jervey Tervalon * Joseph S. Walker * Thaai Walker * Jess Walter Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Again a great collection has been assembled. Perhaps the annual appearance of this volume and the Mysterious Nookshops’ volume is a tribute to the creativity of the writers in our world - something I really appreciate. ( )