Fiction

I normally read almost a book a day but this is an anthology of several stories so it’s going to take me an extra couple days to get through.

I normally LOVE Le Veque because her stories are more than goofy romance novels—they’re as much about the warfare, strategies, and above all, impeccably edited so nothing weird stops me in my tracks. In this case, I’ve made notes on several absurd editing misses—wrong words, weird punctuation—and I feel like she’s let me down. This is not an advance reader copy, so the fact there are mistakes makes me really sad. This has the added discomfort of an unusual (for her) addition of a grotesque incestuous relationship that isn’t her norm, and though the appropriate people have finally died, has really made me cringey as I read. Definitely a dark departure for her.