How Long ’til Black Future Month? (Dreamblood #0.5)

Brilliant writing, narrated well. I loved the variety of stories – the author, Jemisin, covers a lot of ground. I bought this book because I really enjoyed the Broken Earth trilogy, and I enjoyed her short stories even more. I loved the variety of her fantasy worlds, from magic cooking to computers to dirigibles to personified cities, and the differences in her story-telling styles. She comes to this book with an agenda of seeing more diversity in fantasy writing, and she delivers on that, too. The narrators all do a great job, and I enjoyed the variety of readers. My only criticism is that there are no pauses in between stories – they are treated like chapters, rather than unique short stories. I wish Hachette Audio had added a few seconds for the listener to gather themselves and let the story sink in, instead of immediately launching into the next without a pause. Like the moment of utter silence of an audience after a great musical performance. These stories deserve that.

A wonderful collection of stories, from other worlds and our own, conceived and developed by Jemisin, then excellently brought to life by a host of narrative voices.

Loved these stories, a variety of speculative styles but each engaging, and loved the use of multiple narrators –made it easy to tell the stories apart and get drawn into each unique story.

This collection is great if you\’re a fan of some of Jemison\’s longer works because you see the origins of sever lal of her novels here. Having said that there are a couple stories that I\’d give 11 out of 10 stars and some that I\’d give 2 or 3 so from that perspective a collection where all the stories are a solid 5 or 6 might seem like a better time investment. Still, because readers have such different tastes I think the beauty of this collection is that there will be a story that will appeal to many types of readers from the foodie to the historian to the sci fi and fantasy reader.

The stories were really good. But there was one of the readers, that spoke too fast and didnt leave any breathing room between sentences. Overall good and I love Jemisins work.

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