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Devil Talk: Stories

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My latest read was chosen based on the cover AND the title.
I mean, look at it! Awesome, right? How can it not compel you to read it?

In the beginning, I found some of these stories particularly uninteresting and confusing at times. I often found myself wondering what the point was. The stories mainly dropped me in the middle of anywhere and endend up taking me to nowhere. I mean, a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, even if it's just a short story instead of a novel. These stories didn't really have that.

However, I did find a few stories that I liked.

Like Don de la Cruz and the Devil of Malibu and Devil Talk, which told dark tales of wanting something but instead getting something else in return.

The narration in Ramona was compelling and left me wanting to hear more.

But I'd have to say that I liked the dialogue in Muy Loca Girl the best.

So, in conclusion, you may not like all the stories in this book, but you may find some that you do. So it might be worth reading it.

Devil Talk: Stories is an anthology of Latino short fiction, laced with men and women encountering evil, drama, even humor amid the everyday life of Chicano and Meixcano culture. Author Daniel A. Olivas, published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including "The MacGuffin" and "The Pacific Review", presents his wickedest work in these eerie tales that walk the line of darkness, from a botched robbery with deadly consequences on the same day that JFK is buried to a young man's preternatural ability to see exactly what his girlfriend is doing when he is away. An enthralling collection; the stories are so tantalizing that they are best devoured all at once.