Blurb:
A parasite from Proto Space, summoning memory eaters, funeral machines eating teenagers, space rides to Pleroma, and a frog baby that transcends time and space. These are just some of the stories that will warp your sense of reality until you’re living in Brett Petersen’s mind and you won’t want to leave.
My review:
“The Parasite from Proto-Space” by Brett Petersen is a Science fiction collection of 9 short stories. This is my first time reading short stories so I had a different experience. Each story was so unique from each other from the titles to the endings. There weren’t many characters in each story and that’s the thing I loved the most in this book.
I loved the two short stories “The Labyrinth and the Jingling Keys” and “Ca-Caw!”. The former one is about a boy who was sent to a “place” when he was a child by his parents. It was like an asylum except here children were given tasks, cruel punishments and drugs that would give weird dreams.
The latter “Ca-Caw!” (Yes! I know it’s a weird name but this is the one I liked most) is about Jimmy who had a phobia of birds (especially crows) because of an incident that happened in his childhood. This story mainly focuses on mental illness and I did love it. I liked the ending of both these stories.
I don’t like the rest of the stories much. The reason is that each story started off so good but the endings were not so vivid. That’s the main drawback in this book. Overall it’s a good one time read.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5
*Thanks to the author for providing me with a copy of the book. I was compensated for the time and effort required to read and review the book, but my opinions remain honest and unaffected.*
Deepireads 