More progress! 5 down, 16 to go. (list)
Which: Do Not Deny Me, Jean Thompson; Love Walked In, Marisa De los Santos.
I like the idea of short stories but I don’t read many of them (John August’s The Variant is my most recent favorite), so Do Not Deny Me was fun. Well, “fun.” I don’t know, a couple of the women were too shrill for me to like. You know what I liked, though? They were shrill in a “good lord, I have met that woman” kind of way. So, nicely done.
Love Walked In was sweet. I was prepared for it to be saccharine, but it…earns the story and ending. De los Santos doesn’t pull any cheap tricks or try to hoodwink the reader or short-sheet her characters, which is nice.
