I'm not a huge short stories fan, but I'll read them if I've liked other things by the author. This collection is true to its name, but I also noticed that almost all of them had the theme of violation with protagonists suffering torture, murder, stalking and alien mind invasion. Creepy! ( )

Nina Kiriki Hoffman just writes wonderful short stories. That's how it is. The stories in this anthology give you all too brief glimpses of worlds and people who are weird, uncanny, just a bit frightening and still strangely, familiar. Her characters have teeth and claws and yet, they are also somehow family. Well, in the end who is scarier or more familiar than family? Reading an NKR story is for me a bit like having a particularly vivid dream - where dream logic operates in a way that makes complete sense to me - until I, reluctantly, wake up. ( )

A very interesting set of stories, stories to amuse and make you think. All with a urban fantasy or near future feel to them. Sometimes the shorter ones made me think more, which was good. ( )