Fever Dreams...Without the Fever! A Review of Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog

 

Disclaimer: I actually did have a fever while reading this. COVID ain't pretty.

Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog is like having seven fever dreams, but in a good way, without the fever. Usually, in a collection of short stories, there are always a few that don't seem as good as the others. Not in this book. I enjoyed all of them. Reading this made me yearn for a tiny live dog inside a pistachio shell. What's this all about? Well, you'll have to read it and see how tiny dogs arrive in nut shells.

In one, a science fiction tale, there are Handmaids with probing snouts, furred bellies, and sleek and whiplike limbs. Even though they were apparently not dressed, I kept picturing them in red capes and white bonnets.

Some stories were sad, some happy, but all were magical reads.

Thanks to Netgalley and Random House for allowing me to read and revue White Cat, Black Dog.