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Short story collections are a mixed bag, both within themselves and across the whole genre. They often have a very "mixtape" feel to them, taking on varied tones, genres, and themes. Sometimes this can have a jarring effect if the sequence isn't carefully chosen or a disjointed feel when one or two stories feel drastically different from the rest. Thankfully, Kristen Duvall's collection Femmes Du Chaos does not suffer too much from it.

A wicked and twisted series of tales, some of which are endowed with a grim sense of humor, Femmes Du Chaos starts on the outrageous side and keeps charging forward. Some of the stories are unrelentingly grim ("The Fallout," "The Chosen One," "Irreversible") and can be hard to take but are intense and vividly-written. Others are real classics. My favorites were "Like Father, Like Daughter," "Magic Shoes," and the closer for the collection, a dystopian horror story titled "The Price You Pay." Some of these felt like ideas that could've become entire novels but the author delivered them as fully-realized and carefully constructed stories that left me wanting more. It's not often that short stories feature such interesting, yet economical world-building.

I will definitely need to check out more by Duvall, as Femmes Du Chaos feels like a taste of what she could do with more pages. Given it's grisly content and often despair-filled moments, it may not be to everyone's taste, but I certainly enjoyed it.


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Femmes du Chaos Kristen Duvall 9781490926872 Books Reviews

A+ (Beyond 5 Stars!)
Holy cow this book hooked me! It hooked me and I read it in like 2 days, and I’m a major failure for taking so long to get this review up but it’s up now and I need to shout! I LOVE THIS COLLECTION!

These stories are so good, so different and so well written. Each one was a new adventure and when it ended, I was sad.. until I started the next one! I thought that this collection’s theme was so interesting and so twisted I couldn’t help but want to read it right away! I was not disappointed, not in the slightest! Each female was such a bad ass in her own right, dealing with people who were putting them down, but not every story had a HEA either. They are just stories, of females, trying to do the best they can, and being blocked each and every way!

The style of this collection is wonderful, and really shows how incredibly versatile Kristen Duvall is! She wrote each story, and doesn’t stick to the same style at all, but goes to all the right places for the stories. It pulls you in, each story, I was on the edge of my seat, trying to figure out what was going to happen, and some stories are downright creepy.

You need to read this collection, no questions.

*I was given a ecopy as a part of blog tour. All opinions are my own.
A great, thrilling read! You will not be disappointed... what are you waiting for? Go purchase!
Kristen Duvall has a twisted sensibility, but I never got the idea that she was trying to shock the reader without a purpose. This is definitely worth a read.
I absolutely LOVED this book. It was very easy to get into and there was a nice range in the different story lines. The collection left me wanting to read more of them and I was sad to find that I had reached the end of the book. One of my favorite stories in this collection had a well thought out twist right at the end, and all of them left me with some emotional connection to the individual characters. I highly recommend it!
This compilation of short stories is a perfect traveling companion.
It offers a variety of interesting scenarios and sometimes leaves the ending to reader interpretation.
Many have well thought out plots and would lend themselves to even larger novels.
I enjoyed the ease of reading and letting my imagination fill in the pictures so aptly introduced in these little tales
I first came across Kristen Duvall through the LJ Idol competition in season 6. She's one of the earliest friends I made in the game, in part because I had come to enjoy her non-fiction stories about her life. I just loved her humour and attitude. As time went on, she started writing fiction, too, which was very different from tales of her life, but also enjoyable. I think all but one of the stories in this collection are stories I recognised from the competition, though naturally they have been edited in some way or another since I first came across them.

What I noticed about this collection is that Kristen has a knack for portraying children and young adults in her stories, though not all of her protagonists can be classified as such. I think the reason they stood out for me is because I don't really write those age groups myself. There is a good variety of tales in the collection, from horror, to dystopian, to paranormal, to fantasy, and other variations of speculative fiction.

My favourite stories in the collection were
* The Price You Pay - I just love the way Kristen deals with the poorest people in her fiction, and this is a good example of that. Though this works well as a stand alone story, I would love to see it expanded upon in a novella or something even longer.
* Fire in the Sky - a brilliant dystopian world where it is prophesied that the sun will explode, and everyone believes it.
* Two of a Kind - it can be a little torturous to read about the pain experienced by the characters, but it's really well told.
* Devils and Darlings - this is one of the more disturbing child protagonist stories.
* The Trails I've Walked - because when I read it the first time, and again now, I felt like it could really be a true story.

There are actually a few pretty disturbing stories, about the sickest humans you can imagine (especially in The Chosen One), and if you knew Kristen, you'd probably wonder how someone who seems so innocent could come up with such ideas, but I think that's part of what I love about them. I couldn't write stories like that, but I'm impressed that she can disturb me in such a way. Oh, and I also really liked at how well she wrote her mother characters, being a mother myself. I felt like I could really connect with them and their experiences.

Lastly, I liked that Kristen included excerpts from her upcoming novels. I'm particularly excited by the Princess and the Piper one. The excerpt is such a great teaser and I can't wait to read the full story.

**N.B. Kristen is a good friend of mine, and she included me in the acknowledgements of the book, so feel free to disregard my review if you're not a fan of seeing friend reviews.
Short story collections are a mixed bag, both within themselves and across the whole genre. They often have a very "mixtape" feel to them, taking on varied tones, genres, and themes. Sometimes this can have a jarring effect if the sequence isn't carefully chosen or a disjointed feel when one or two stories feel drastically different from the rest. Thankfully, Kristen Duvall's collection Femmes Du Chaos does not suffer too much from it.

A wicked and twisted series of tales, some of which are endowed with a grim sense of humor, Femmes Du Chaos starts on the outrageous side and keeps charging forward. Some of the stories are unrelentingly grim ("The Fallout," "The Chosen One," "Irreversible") and can be hard to take but are intense and vividly-written. Others are real classics. My favorites were "Like Father, Like Daughter," "Magic Shoes," and the closer for the collection, a dystopian horror story titled "The Price You Pay." Some of these felt like ideas that could've become entire novels but the author delivered them as fully-realized and carefully constructed stories that left me wanting more. It's not often that short stories feature such interesting, yet economical world-building.

I will definitely need to check out more by Duvall, as Femmes Du Chaos feels like a taste of what she could do with more pages. Given it's grisly content and often despair-filled moments, it may not be to everyone's taste, but I certainly enjoyed it.