.jpg)
Publisher: Page Turn Press
Publication Date: 1st December 2023
Genre: Fiction
Summary:
GREEN THUMBS BEWARE
Plants are beautiful, peaceful, abundant, and life-sustaining...
Plants are beautiful, peaceful, abundant, and life-sustaining. But what if something sinister took root in the soil, awakening to unleash slashing thorns, squeezing vines, or haunting greenery that lured you in? Perhaps blooms on distant planets could claim your heart, hitch a ride to Earth on a meteor, or simply poison you with their essence. Imagine a world where scientists produced our own demise in a lab, set spores free to infect, even bred ferns to be our friends only to witness the privilege perverted. When faced with botanical terror, will humanity fight to survive, or will they curl and wither like leaves in the fall?
Read ten speculative tales ripe with dangerous flora to find out.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Rachel's Random Resources and Page Turn Press for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
I've really enjoyed flipping through this collection, I did as was suggested by Hollie Rae Garcia and started with Black Thumbs and it was fantastic. Suitably creepy, brilliantly written and had me looking at my pitcher plant oddly for the rest of the day! Seedling was another one that I really enjoyed, the weirdly clever idea for adding plant DNA into humans sounds way too much like something a scientist somewhere might be working on, and again it was brilliantly written.
Id never heard of any of the authors featured in this anthology until I started making my way through the stories but I've definitely added some more to my want-to-read list of authors because each of these stories is so cleverly written that I really want to know what they do with a bigger word count!
I have to say the only thing about the book I'm not keen on is the front cover! Whilst I think it probably fits the anthology well I just don't really like it, it is just a matter of personal taste I think here.
I haven't read all of the stories yet, i keep picking out one or two whose titles take my fancy when I want a reading break from my Christmassy books but I think that's the joy of having a collection of shorts you can dip in and out to break up a block of books.
Firstly thank you to Rachel's Random Resources and Page Turn Press for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
I've really enjoyed flipping through this collection, I did as was suggested by Hollie Rae Garcia and started with Black Thumbs and it was fantastic. Suitably creepy, brilliantly written and had me looking at my pitcher plant oddly for the rest of the day! Seedling was another one that I really enjoyed, the weirdly clever idea for adding plant DNA into humans sounds way too much like something a scientist somewhere might be working on, and again it was brilliantly written.
Id never heard of any of the authors featured in this anthology until I started making my way through the stories but I've definitely added some more to my want-to-read list of authors because each of these stories is so cleverly written that I really want to know what they do with a bigger word count!
I have to say the only thing about the book I'm not keen on is the front cover! Whilst I think it probably fits the anthology well I just don't really like it, it is just a matter of personal taste I think here.
I haven't read all of the stories yet, i keep picking out one or two whose titles take my fancy when I want a reading break from my Christmassy books but I think that's the joy of having a collection of shorts you can dip in and out to break up a block of books.
Krystina xx
No comments:
Post a Comment