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You Fed Us To The Roses
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Final girls who take care of each other. Dead boys still breathing. Ghosts who whisper secrets you can never share. Angels beyond the grave, yet not of heaven. Wolves who wear human skins.
Featuring ten contemporary dark fantasy and horror stories, You Fed Us To the Roses is a visceral, triumphant collection by Carlie St. George that you won't want to miss.
Stop by for the murder...and stick around for the feels.
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“After the first couple of stories in this collection, I was CERTAIN it was going to be a two—or, *gasp*, a one—star read, but I was quickly proven wrong. The collection, at first, felt like if Casey McQuiston tried to write horror, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. The pop culture references were corny, the representation was great in theory but in practice would just rip you out of the story to make a reference to a character’s sexuality, and then throw you back in like nothing happened, and I just generally found the writing to be just vaguely off-putting. “Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future” felt like a derivative slasher spin-off and did not work for me in the slightest. There was potential in “Three Can Keep a Secret,” and I thought it was an important and probably cathartic story of CSA, but everything aside from the powerful analogy didn’t work for me. “You Were Once Wild Here” was another that just didn’t click for me, despite the theoretically interesting internal werewolf conflict. The first story in the collection to work for me was the Hansel and Gretel retelling, “Monsters Never Leave You,” in which the candy house itself becomes a character worthy of redemption. “15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” started off as a strong contender for my least favorite story here but, somehow, managed to be the only one to literally move me to tears. Sparrow’s relationships with her parents and friends, and the final fuck you to god just worked, despite the cringe within. The final girl Groundhog’s Day, “If We Survive the Night,” was a moving story of female empowerment beyond the grave and subverted horror tropes back on themselves. “Every Day Is the Full Moon” was another story tackling complicated parental relationships and the complications of love, while also being a supernatural tale of demonic possession and resurrection. The most haunted story here, “Spider Season, Fire Season,” felt unique in its talks of ghosts while still being a powerfully emotional story of women trying to save each other from the men that have wronged them. “Such Lovely Teeth, Such Big Teeth” is one of the first stories I’ve read that truly tackles the innate body horror present in a girl going through puberty while also being a Red Riding Hood twist that, once again, serves as a really impactful analogy for CSA. Finally, “Forward, Victoria” was a good story, but not a favorite, of the ramifications of not believing victims. Generally, these stories could have all benefited from a tad less internet speak, but the heart was solid and was truly moving at times. I think the introduction summed up the stories best when Wagner said, “Don’t get me wrong: this book is about monsters. That’s because it’s about girls, and society is terrified that girls with power will become monstrous.” Definitely will be reading more by Carlie St. George in the future.”
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