The Review Review gives Issue 04 five stars, saying it “seamlessly blends style, presentation, and experimentation with pieces that celebrate the universal human experiences of love, loneliness, heartbreak, and anxiety.”
LAUREN YU-TING BO
Paramaditha does not abstain from widely acknowledged gothic tropes entirely...and yet, Night of a Thousand Hells contains mainly the horror of reality. We are told from the beginning that it's the story of three sisters and that the youngest sister Annisa, “the beautiful one,” has committed an act of terrorism.
The writing here is lyric and effortless, an evocative rendering of both place and character. It is in moments like this that Mysore so excels as a writer and makes this collection a necessary read for anyone interested in reading about diverse places and characters (which, in my opinion, should be everyone).
BRITTA STROMEYER
Lambridis offers an incisive commentary on how communities construct collective realities as a defense mechanism against trauma and marginalization, suggesting that our afflictions, histories, and identities are not passive interpretations of the world, but the very scaffolding that shapes it.
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