Book Review: Carnie Punk (Anthology)

Carniepunk by Rachel Caine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

On a whole the stories are very entertaining, some have funny elements and some are touching while others leave chills down your spine or leave you uncomfortable and squirming in your seat.

With a selection of stand alone and short stories from ready established worlds this is a great collection of Carnival Stories to creep you out.

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10/04	page 25		5.0%	"Wow, that was a bit dark, specially for the first story."
10/07	page 57		13.0%	"That's kind of sad. An interesting look into the world of Sang. And for some reason I'm loving the blood sucking bunnies!"
10/07	page 87		20.0%	"Love the relationship between Oberon and Atticus, and this really got me interested in the world."
10/07	page 121		27.0%	"Well.... that was disturbing"
10/08	page 153		35.0%	"Finally! A she-wolf."
10/08	page 189		43.0%	"Horrific and brilliant. Cold Girl is a fantastic short story"
10/09	page 219		50.0%	"despite all the cliches this is still a pretty good story, though maybe retelling would be a more suited word."
10/14	page 249		57.0%	"I'm not all that up with my Greek mythology, so I had to look some of these up. Very cool story though."
10/19	page 279		64.0%	"parlor tricks is an interesting little story if you're not familiar with the world, if you are I think this would be an interesting little insight to the life if the two sisters. I also really like the elemental magic in this one."
12/06	page 307		70.0%	"Freak House - reads like an origin story, interesting intro to the characters and paranormal lore. First I've read about a half Djinn, sounds like an interesting series."
12/06	page 308		71.0%	"Oh shit! It's the killer clown story"
12/06	page 342		78.0%	"This would be ridiculous if it wasn't so creepy. Highly entertaining and surprisingly multi-cultural Charlies Angels read. Could be a really fun series to get into, kinda reminds me of Marvels Fearless Defenders."
12/06	page 342		78.0%	"BEST. OPENING. LINE. EVER!"
12/06	page 374		86.0%	"A Chance in Hell - Not the way I would go about the bigger picture, but as a short story I liked it and she did learn something about herself by the end."
12/07	page 406		93.0%	"Hell's Menagerie - A fairly sweet story, though I don't know the characters and I guess you would have to read the series to know what happened. The world is pretty interesting though and the story on it's own is touching."
12/07	page 433		100.0%	"Daughter of the Midway, The Mermaid and the Open Lonely Sea - This one is fairly dark and mysterious. Without all the facts its really hard to know how I feel about the ending. Completely unsettling in the unknown."