Name: Night, Neon
ISBN: 9781613162309

Joyce Carol Oates

A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author

Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Night, Neon

riven

I was genuinely excited to see this at the bookstore I work at and thought to give it a change. I was utterly disappointed. Aside from the first story, nothing was particularly hinting at a mystery. Some included suspense but for the most part, just a let down. 

Oates’ other works are fantastic. So this was terribly disappointing.

Devin Mainville

I’m a fan of Joyce Carol Oates' writing and “tales of mystery and suspense” sounded like the perfect way to ease myself into fall reading so I was intrigued by this collection of short stories. 

First word of warning, these are not tales of mystery and suspense in the ways those terms are usually applied to fiction. They’re more tales of unease that force you to think about the most horrifying parts of humanity like aging, mass violence, men, and self destructive tendencies.

Like any collection of stories, not all of them worked for me, but the ones that did - namely :Miss Golden Dreams 1949,” “Parole Hearing…” and the titular story “Night, Neon” really, really worked. 

Thank you to RBMedia and NetGalley for the #ALC

Night, Neon Tales of Mystery and Suspense

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