“…Fairy tales aren’t often considered a subgenre of horror, but only because we so rarely read the actual Grimm versions.”
“…The ending is one of my favorites of the year. It’s chilling and unexpected.”
“…What sets Rodriguez’s apart is the depth of the worldbuilding – a myths-inside-myths bloody layer cake of a mini-epic where the very world was created by such treachery, so that its people can’t help but follow suit.”
“. . .The story does a good job in my opinion of layering the narrative, nesting stories within stories so that aside from the story of Jacinto and Ostred there is the story of the two brother gods, and after them the story of the two brothers who were sons of the drowned god. . . And it’s a great read!”
“Uncanny’s . . . always so full of incredible pieces of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that picking a single story to feature is a challenge in an of itself. But since I have to choose, I’m going with ‘This Is Not My Adventure.’”