Review: Love is not for wimps
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2011
I checked into Cannibal Nights because of the Penguin controversy. Penguin Books had Kiana Davenport under contract for a print novel scheduled for release in 2012. In 2011, Davenport self-published this collection of stories, which Penguin had previously rejected, and Penguin had a fit, accusing her of "sleeping with the enemy," their competitor(?) Amazon. They cancelled her novel contract and demanded their advance back.This expression of woefully misguided publisher pique attracted my attention. After reading a short sample, I ordered Cannibal Nights for my Kindle and started reading. With fervor.It's hard for me to imagine a better promotional tool for that up-coming novel than Cannibal Nights! It's a solid collection of stories that are, by turns, warm and horrifying. Here are tales of sacrifice and tales of irredeemable cruelty, tales of love found, love lost, love regained and love turned on its head and beaten with a stick.Not that these are "romance" stories. (Okay, maybe one of them is.) This is love in the real world with all its hard surfaces and sharp edges, told by a skilled author who crafts prose that sings.Highly recommended!