Death In Its Many Forms by S.H. Cooper
If there’s one thing you can be certain of, it’s death, and it is to this we owe this review of Florida-based author S.H. Cooper and her new collection of short stories, Death In Its Many Forms, which, as alluded to by its title, centres around varying forms of death.
However, I do feel that’s underselling the book somewhat, for what it entails is a collection of short stories, each imbuing a different genre, and the writing ranges from Noir to Gothic prose, which, I will admit, surprised me very pleasantly, as this is the first time I’ve read anything by this author! Spanning ten stories, we are taken through various stories, many of which are timeless and span the past, present and future, each individually crafted to tell its own individual tale without any reliance on the previous tale, which really highlights the quality of imagination, and often prose, which went into writing this book.
With tales of scorched love, revenge, murder and apocalypse, Death In Its Many Forms remains, by and large, quite positive about its central topic, with many of the stories imbuing a sense of rebirth, many in ways the reader wouldn’t expect, which gives these stories an added sense of unexpectedness.
As I mentioned above, this is the first time I’ve read anything by S.H. Cooper; however, after reading Death In Its Many Forms, I don’t think this will be the last time I read something by her, and I very much look forward to my next read.
- Death In Its Many Forms by S.H. Cooper is out now and self-published. To order a copy, go to Amazon.co.uk
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