Life is Short and Then You Die edited by Kelley Armstrong - NO

Life is Short and Then You Die: First Encounters with Murder edited by Kelley Armstrong, 308 pages. Imprint (Macmillan), 2019. $18

Language: R (79 swears, 6‘f’); Mature Content: R (self-pleasuring); Violence: R (murders and bodies)

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - NO

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

I guess I was hoping that a book of short stories about murder would be interesting and introspective without straying into the teenagers being deeply psychotic murderers themselves.  Alas, four of the stories are just that.  The rest of the stories are relatively interesting, while Concealment by Eileen Rendahl was the best of them all.  I can’t overlook the “psycho killers”, though.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS