Kelly Link

A collection of nine short stories for young adults.

Stories

Pretty Monsters

Nicole Dykeman

I usually love short story collections, but so many of these just made absolutely no sense. And honestly, I am not a fan of books like that. Don’t make me think hard about what something is supposed to mean. I’m reading these for fun, not for deep thinking and thorough analysis. It just dragged on and on and I had no motivation to finish until I sat down and forced myself through it.

Holy shit. That was fantastic.

My favorites were the one about the handbag and the one about the surfer and the aliens.

But. Wow. A+ for narrative style. A+ for general goodness of writing.

Highly recommended

Maggie Gordon

Mark Wadley

Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour.

Ramona Crumlish

Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour. Combining the imaginative brilliance of Borges with the madcap escapades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more than a pinch of macabre humour, this is writing to come back from the dead for.

Pretty Monsters Stories

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