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Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural

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As I read Back of Beyond by Sarah Ellis, I found myself asking myself why this was supposed to be stories about supernatural events, because as far as I could tell these stories mainly included lonely kids whos parents were either divorced or just didn't exist in general. Most of these short stories were about strange appearances of someone or something or strange disappearances of people or things. As far as I could tell there weren't any aliens or supernatural life involved in any of the short stories. These kids in every story just seemed to happen upon something while they were moping because they were depressed or angered about their "destructive" families. The even weirder part was that at the end of the story, after all of their strange happenings most of them were still sad and/or upset. Oh and if you were wondering this is in the genre short stories.

I think that this book is simply one of the best books that I've ever read. When I first started reading it I thought the stories were totally "weird". But when I got to the story about "Mr. Potato Head" my thought changed into "unusual". Which is good. I mean, I think reading normal plots and stories and just really boring. This book really got me thinking. For readers who likes unusual surprises, here's a perfect book!

I was intrigued by some of the stories in this book; many had some either very twisted endings or did not really end. Many of the stories, however, flew right over my head, and were not very clear to me as far as the plot of the story. I would possibly recommend this book to anyone who likes stories that don't have traditional endings or usual plots. I would also say that if you frequently have trouble understanding plots, this book may not be for you. I don't think this book was really for me.