Dead Americans and other Stories by Ben Peek

This is Book 24 started, book 4 unfinished

Dead Americans and other Stories by Ben Peek
Published by ChiZine, March 2014

NOTE: This book was provided by the publisher, through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.

This is a collection of short stories by author Ben Peek that are an odd collection of fantasies – some with historical figures and some without.  They’re a bit dark but nothing that qualifies as horror.  I didn’t read the entire collection; I found the writing style to be somewhat tedious and overly done.  I didn’t care about the characters and I didn’t find their situations particularly interesting.

I read the first 4 stories which make up the first third of the book and I found myself distracted in each of them – looking forward to that particular story to be over.

It may be that this particular collection or this particular author just isn’t my thing; but I usually enjoy short story collections.  In this case, the stories didn’t have specific grammar problems or anything simplistic I could point to, it’s more the overall writing style that did me in.

2 Stars