The 7th Sin

The collection's theme, the seven deadly sins, allows for a huge variety of stories. They could be about any old random thing, and boy are they ever.

Blood plagues, a one seemingly about Superman, a people eating octopus that grows alongside its owner's also growing greed, one with a D&D setting which doesn't entirely make sense but shut up and just go with it ... Many others are of course more subtle and slow, and several are just character studies with little plot. But even those are all twisted and creepy in some way.

They all mostly nail the theme of the collection. After each story, the sin it was about is written after in BIG BOLD LETTERS and it was fun while reading them trying to figure out which it would be before I saw it.

Now, it's not perfect. Too many of the stories just end abruptly with the GOTCHA endings or just end period with nothing happening making them seem like a snippet of a longer story. A few them just made me shrug and go whatever, what's the next story gonna be about?

But I enjoyed it and found it to be a good read. I love the randomness in these kinds of collections and there was a great deal of creativity on display.