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Ouch, I almost wrote "Neighbours"..

It's a sad setting. Sarah is a fine old woman, and I felt depressed reading about her world fading away. I gave the story a second title in my head: Loss. She lost her friend, her security..

Maybe I am just associating it with my own sad memories, but I think it is worth reading.

I haven't read the other short stories from that anthology, I don't know yet if I'd suggest to get the book.

I haven't bought Dangerous women yet, but I liked the two other anthologies (Songs of love and death / Warriors), so it's somewhere on my purchase list.

(Jan-14-2014, 08:57 AM (UTC))joost Wrote: [ -> ]I haven't bought Dangerous women yet, but I liked the two other anthologies (Songs of love and death / Warriors), so it's somewhere on my purchase list.

Bought it, read it, loved it. Not all stories are as interesting (apparently Joe Abercrombie's story is up for an award, but I found it rather bland), but I love the history-based ones.

Neighbors doesn't make it to my top list of the stories in the anthology, but it's not the bottom either. I really didn't like the daughter and her friend. I have to agree with the subtitle 'Loss'.

I'm a bit surprised that Neighbors hasn't generated much discussion (here or elsewhere), seeing that the anthology has been quite popular so a lot of people should have had the chance to read it. It's definitely one of the darker ML stories and for me, competes for the most heart-wrenching one together with Strays.