Nothing new done here, the plot was okay and the writing was also okay. Very forgettable.

The plot felt rushed and at the same time like if it was dragging the unnecessary parts. The dialogue was also weird and the scenes were cut short without any connection between them. The concept is good though.

Long and confusing. I wanted to like this but I failed.

It was okay, better than the first two but not as interesting as the third one. I did like the slight thriller/horror of it all. Maybe I'm just not in the headspace to love this.

"And you found you did not mind being a devil, so long as you were his."

"I sit all day by that pool, speaking to all the iterations of my past. I tell myself how to kill and how to live that I may kill again, and the words echo oddly in my skull, memories I hand back to myself. I watch myself grow strong and tall, rangy as a young lioness, then scarred and gnarled, hollow eyed. It’s like watching a year pass in a single day, spring into summer into an early, hard winter."

“Before all this, before the Saint and the Prince, you were the girl who still shared her meat with the begging dogs, no matter how hungry she was. Who took a beating for a boy who deserved it, for no reason except that she could bear it better than him. Who shone, even in the shadows.” He said your name, even more softly. “You are not a knife.” And you said, wretchedly, “But I am his.”

I am so glad you can actually read this story without having to read the others (disasters) because this was so beautiful. The prose, the narrative, the full circle moment, the romance!!!! I wish this was a full book instead of a short story. I beg of you please read this!

The author clearly doesn't know how to write through a teenager's perspective or maybe doesn't know how to write at all. There were some sentences that could be taken out of the story completely. A short story is supposed to be short and straight to the point. This whole thing is about her powers or whatever but not even she can understand or remember what happened. How are we supposed to even understand what's going on if no information is given?

"I think men are afraid of their fathers. (...) Sons used to replace their fathers. Now both live too long." A short story about grief and how obsessed somene might get after the unfortunate happens. The main characters goes to Brazil to look for the Garden her mother described in her journal as a way to self discover. The poetry was quite bad but I did enjoy the little bits of portuguese (my native tongue).