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Incredibly creative stories with characters I will never forget. I enjoyed diving into these fictional worlds. Highly recommend if you're looking for something unique!
I think my favorite out of these four re-tellings is a tie between “Straw House” and “Wood House”. They feel the most original out of the entire four, which is why this gets three out of five stars. The idea of a “wish police” is interesting, but at the same time, it didn’t quite feel detailed enough, when the author could have gone farther. With “Straw House” and “Wood House”, Nayeri really pushes the envelope to the point where I got chills while reading, but seemed to kind of go downhill afte...
A set of 4 novellas, each a different genre, all written on an iPhone. Sounds intriguing, right? But I quit after the first two. Perhaps that was a mistake, but since I’m reviewing these with an eye toward talking the book up to teenagers, I thought it was appropriate. Full disclosure – the written reviews of this book were favorable, so I must be missing something. The first story is a western set on a farm occupied and managed by toys. The main character is a straw man & a villain comes to th
Straw house,Wood House,Brick house, Blow sounds like an excellent book according to the book jacket. Unfortunately, it is not. The book is comprised of 4 short stories, each one is a totally different story. The first story, Straw House, is the story of a boy made of straw who lives on a farm that grows toys. The story gets more and more confusing as it goes on. New characters are added and then the story ends. The second story, Wood House, is even more confusing than Straw House. It takes place...
This may not have been one of my favorite books to read, but I can't deny its sheer genius. Four novellas, linked only by the disquieting feeling they evoke. This stuff is weird, in a way that keeps the reader cleverly off balance, unable to reconcile the deeply familiar and deeply unfamiliar elements of the stories. If Philip K. Dick belonged to the millennial generation, I suspect he'd have written a book like this one.
My rating for this book is more like 3.7 stars, because although the latter three novellas were lovely, it was a little difficult to get through Straw House. Perhaps this was more a fault on my part, as I did enjoy the story and the slightly dark humour, but I think I'm just not made to read westerns. Otherwise, I quite enjoyed my first foray into reading Daniel Nayeri's books, and look forward to reading his series of teenagers in New York, just as soon as I've read the originals.
I was feeling guilty about not finishing this until I came here to post about my feelings of guilt and saw the summary beginning "written entirely on an iPhone". Get a pen, dummy. Pass.
Rating is for the wood house story, which blew my mind.
I fell in love with this book! 100% my jam.
Reason for Reading: I really enjoyed both books in the author's "Another" series and was intrigued by this collection of novellas.A collection of four novellas written by the author, each featuring a different sub-genre, yet all of them fit under either fantasy or science-fiction on the surface. These stories are for the older teen and quite suited to adult reading as well, though they do feature teen main characters. Of the four stories I really enjoyed three of them with two being quite outsta...
