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I won a free copy of this book via a Goodreads giveaway, and an honest review was requested. Lauren Groff is such a wonderful writer, I knew I was in for a treat with these stories. They are all lined with a sense of danger, foreboding, and general creepiness, though the danger comes in many forms. To fess up, I have a severe snake phobia and I had to speed-read through a couple of the snake-centric stories! Groff does a terrific job of describing a place and the situations people work themselve
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Interesting stories, all related to Florida in one way or another. Though my two favorites actually take place in Brazil and France. The latter of which has inspired me to look up some Guy de Maupassant for my next "French February" reading project.
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I loved her debut, The Monsters of Templeton, and although I liked Fates and Furies, I thought it was overrated. Florida, however, is near sublime. Although not all of the stories here are perfect, they're close enough that I couldn't rate it anything lower. And this is coming from someone who isn't the biggest fan of short stories. There isn't a bad one in the bunch here and I have no doubt this will be one of the best books of the year.
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