layawaydragon
Written on Dec 22, 2017
The first story was good, following an kickbutt woman warrior with tribe politics and dark rituals and experimental monsters. My copy has formatting issues where sentences have no spaces and sometimes the narrative as hard to follow, but interesting. Kept my attention.
The next two stories were white men telling tales about torturing and killing slaves. Lots of slurs involved and violence.
Then I skimmed over the a slave tale - this time from the slave’s POV, then a boxer, then a prisoner. None of which looped back into the genre I thought it was - sci-fi & fantasy. That’s how NetGalley has it listed. That’s where I got my copy. Disappointing. Maybe it'd be different if my expectations were accurate. It’s really too bad given all the praise. I really can’t stomach to go further. Guess it’s just not for me.
I'll leave the star rating blank. I can't hold formatting problems and Netgalley's erroneous classification against the books.