Book Review
Title: Dark Musings
Author: David Boiani
Where to get:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/722258
Star Rating: 5 stars
for both enjoyability and structure
Age Rating (IMO):
PG13 for most of the stories
This book is a
collection of short stories ranging from somber, macabre, all the way
through beautiful. Some of them are all of these things. It starts
strong and stays strong through the entire book. Some of these
stories are going to haunt my head for awhile, such as the child
rescued by the teacher, the serial killer, the mother that lost touch
with reality, and the one about the birth of Adolf Hitler and his
parent’s expectations as examples. There are so many different
viewpoints and scenarios, and no character is flat. They live, they
breathe, some of them you wonder if you’ll meet walking down the
street or getting your morning coffee. Some of them you pray you
never will. Yet, it is likely that at some point you will meet
someone that might have stepped from these pages.
These are tales that
might happen, some that do happen. It is not a journey for the faint
of heart. However I also feel it is one that most should read. Some
of these are great cautionary tales, and I would consider this a very
good addition to a collection of modern folklore. They remind me in a
way of books that I grew up with, such as the Scary Stories
collections by Alvin Schwartz, but aimed for an older crowd.
It is hard to find
anything that I did not like. Some of the stories appalled me, but
not because the author dared write them. They appalled me because
I’ve read of things similar happening in news and some of the
things addressed are real. It is not the author’s job to control
his fellow man, and an author’s job is as much to shine light on
the good as it is to expose the bad. Therefore I do not find anything
to actually detract. It was very well done. I am going to be
suggesting this book to several people that I know who will immensely
enjoy it.
Personal note for
Youtube: It took me a couple days to finish this book. I prefer to
read in long uninterrupted sessions, but it just was not able to
happen as I’d have liked. If I had nothing else on my plate I would
have been able to finish in less than a day. You might prefer to read
this one story a day and contemplate to let the full effect seep in,
or you might read in spurts here and there and you can grab the time,
both would work and if done would lengthen your reading time. If you
are like me and like to carve out reading days then you still will be
able to. This book fits any reading style due to the short story
structure.
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