🖤 Beautiful & engrossing writing
🖤 Trinidadian folklore
🖤 Shapeshifters
🖤 Gothic settings
🖤 Creepy atmosphere
🖤 Characters you care about
🖤 Themes of bodily autonomy & finding your voice
🖤 Incredibly sapphic (literally every story except for maybe one was gay, we love it)

Story ratings: 

📚 The Pull of the Herd: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Personal Rakshasi: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Her Voice, Unmasked: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Of Claw and Bone: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (TW: domestic violence)
📚 Kill Jar: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ (Tw: suicidal ideation, child abuse)
📚 Propagating Peonies: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
📚 Tessellated: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Tw: domestic abuse)
📚 Laughter Among The Trees: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Apolèpsie: A Descaling: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 The Bride: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Tara’s Mother’s Skin: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Douen: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (TW: death of a child, animal death)

Average rating: 3.8 ⭐️s
Overall rating: 5 ⭐️s!

Thank you Neon Hemlock for this review copy! All opinions are my own.