★★☆☆☆
(Hardboiled Fantasy) An occult detective and a creature work and love together across multiple lifetimes. (7,498 words; Time: 24m)
"Black Flowers Blossom," by Vina Jie-Min Prasad [bio] (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas), appeared in Uncanny Magazine issue 31, published on November 5, 2019.
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Review: 2019.659 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: “The Continental Agency” figures in a number of Dashiell Hammett’s stories. The scenes of mass slaughter would be at home in some of those books.
Con: There’s no underlying plot here that I can discern. The story alternates between graphic sex and graphic violence with very little else to it.
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Pro: “The Continental Agency” figures in a number of Dashiell Hammett’s stories. The scenes of mass slaughter would be at home in some of those books.
Con: There’s no underlying plot here that I can discern. The story alternates between graphic sex and graphic violence with very little else to it.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Vina Jie-Min Prasad Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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