 A year ago this week I reviewed JR Hamantashin's first book, a collection of his short horror stories and here is his second collection. The full title is, with a voice that is often still confused but is becoming ever louder and clearer. My super short review of this book is this. If you have not read Hamantashin, my advice is let his first book be your introduction to his work, because this one is not as strong. His style is very unusual. I've said before that Hamantashin's brain doesn't work like the rest of ours do. Did I say that right? His stories have a really shocking existential horror to them, a real body terror. That's the only way I can describe it. The first book was full of that. The second book has some of it, but much of it is also just serial killers with butcher knives. And the stories are longer, I think they're too long. So while this is good, I think this collection is stronger when you come to it from Hamantashin's first book. I do have to warn potential readers of this book and the guys at the HP Lovecraft literary podcast had the same warning. Those of you who have newborn babies, this book has a recurring theme. It comes back over and over of babies suffering and dying. If you don't want to read that kind of thing, and if you know you can't handle that kind of thing, then yeah, that's the trigger warning for this book. This is one of those cases where I think a trigger warning is appropriate. So there you are. See you next review. Please remember to press that like button, it helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book, TV, and movie reviews all the time, and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.