Milk Blood Heat

Milk Blood Heat is a stunning debut collection of short stories. Told in incredibly vivid detail through the perspective of the protagonist of each story, you feel intimately connected to each of them. Moniz has a way of painting pictures with her words, making the reader feel as if they are part of every story, experiencing every emotion the characters are going through. Whether it is the angst of an adolescent girl experiencing possibly undiagnosed clinical depression or the woman struggling to move on while still mourning the loss of her baby due to a miscarriage, I felt each story in a raw, visceral way. I found that I could picture these characters as if they were standing right in front of me and I was drawn into their lives and, at the end of each story, wanting to know what happened next. Dantiel Moniz is an exceptional writer. I genuinely enjoyed this book and can't wait to read more of her work.

**I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for a review. Opinions are my own. This book is scheduled to be released February 2021.