 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another book review today. We're talking about a lot by Brian Washington, this is a fantastic book One thing that made me grab it off the book of the month club to begin with was the cover I think it's an exceptional cover. It is artwork, and I always appreciate artwork over just like a face with a title on it And another thing that drew me in was is it was a collection of interconnected stories so the The the main store the main stories I liked in here Nothing I didn't dislike anything, but I absolutely loved certain stories By you was exceptional. It's about two two boys and find a Chupacabra Maybe It was a really fun story Especially their interactions with the thing now these aren't horror stories. This is literary fiction. The whole collection is amazingly written Easily going to be one of my favorites this year. I took my time with it I read it over the course of probably about twenty twenty-two days something like that almost I Wanted I'll probably say it was three weeks On and off. I didn't read a story every single day. Sometimes I split the days up Unfortunately, the story that I didn't like the most is the longest story in here I think it's called log Yeah, that's it or wall W a u g h when I lived in Maine. I believe there was a place called log That that's how you pronounce it, but it might be something different here because I think this one takes place in Texas But or Houston I believe because they talk about I know they talk about Houston Some of the stuff is not ambiguous, but some of the stuff Just there's just no names to go along with it Another one that I liked was a navigation was another favorite of mine All of these stories are great the one thing that I would say watch out for is that That that not the ambiguity some of the stuff is a little too Obscure too vague that'd be the one thing if you look for stories with with hard plots Strict plots strict adherents to plots. This is probably not for you This book is more about the language And the the beauty of the pros than it is about anything else There are heavy LGBTQ themes So if you're interested in that it's definitely something to pick up there's a There's that there's a passion here that I especially appreciated you can feel the heart in the writing But I'm giving it five stars. I mean, there's actually nothing wrong with this and even the the novella length or maybe it's more like a novelette But even the longest story in here has its merits It's just I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed some of the other ones All of the relationships in this book are done very very well if you like reading about characters People who people the characters that feel real if you like reading about the that type of thing without a Heavy plot then you are going to really enjoy this book But until next time I have been a you've been you this been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye