Get in Trouble

Stories

Kelly Link

It's a dark and twisty world out there.  Filled with unhappy, unfulfilled people.  And non-people.  The stories collected in Get In Trouble are not meant to be uplifting feel good tales.  Otherwise, the title would be misleading!  I am not a fan of Pollyanna, happily ever after tales in general, but I had to read this book in small doses.  It became a bit unrelenting after a while.  There were some stories that spoke to me more than others, which is true of any collection.  I knew a story affected me when I woke up the next morning still thinking about it.  Wondering what happened after the last paragraph, the last sentence. 

Kelly Link has a warped sense of the world, which I quite enjoy.  Having grown up reading science fiction and fantasy novels, her stories with a touch of the "other" are the ones that I found the most compelling.  I may not have liked the characters, or even how their stories unfolded, but I was interested and invested despite, or sometimes because of, this.