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I wanted to like this book more. After the Lansdale introduction I thought I was in for a treat but the stories turned out to be disappointing. There is a theme of revenge here that runs through all the stories. Some of the stories appear to be linked on other levels, however some were so similar that I got the feeling one story was just the subsequent working out of an idea from one of the other stories; almost like two drafts for the same story, not a good thing in a collection this thin. In a...
Kind of uneven. Some were fantastic, others were the definition of meh. The stories I disliked still had enjoyable writing, they just ended dissatifingly.
This was my first intro to Allyson Bird, and I really enjoyed this collection of short stories. This is a collection of stories that explores themes of vengeance and murder. Many of the stories are colored with mythological references, which was a nice touch. Interestingly, for this entire collection, each story is paired with another story. Some stories utilize the same setting as the one that came before it, or a similar plot element that was found in one is found in another, etc. I liked how
The smoky, ethereal artwork of Daniele Serra is the perfect face for this book: like the stories inside, it seems to become more unsettling with time.Like Allyson Bird’s last collection, the award-winning Bull Running For Girls, there’s drama, horror, dark fantasy and everything in between, but I noticed a noticed a few changes with Wine and Rank Poison. The revenge/deadly-sin themed stories are heavy on evocation – which is extremely well done – and the author favours a more succinct prose styl...
The ten stories in Wine and Rank Poison firmly entrench Allyson Bird in the pantheon of weird fiction writers. They are subtly unsettling stories laced with vice and vengeance and the same humanness that garnered Bull Running for Girls (Screaming Dreams, 2008) such well-deserved critical acclaim. In his introduction, Joe R. Lansdale compares Bird to Phillip Jose Farmer in that she can translate simple ideas into unique stories that defy classification. This assertion is well evidenced in Wine an...
