Pleased to Meet You

Please to Meet You by Caroline Adderson was a difficult read for me. First off I am not a fan of the short story and chose to read this book mostly because it fit a couple of reading challenges that I needed to complete. Although there were a couple of stories in this collection that I liked, for the most part I was put off by the author’s writing style and her decision to fill her stories with such unsympathetic, flawed people.

There were nine stories in this collection and I liked Petit Mal about a mother who fears her son has become involved in Satanism, I also found Knives to be creepy but interesting but the overall slyness, the feeling that the author and her characters are superior to everyday people made me quite show more uncomfortable.

I am certainly not judging the quality of this author’s writing but I doubt very much that I would pick something up by her again, we are obviously not on the same wavelength, and I felt very much out of my comfort zone with these stories. show less