Book Review – Strange Weather

Strange Weather by Joe Hill
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This collection of four novellas gets off to a reasonably good start, but it goes downhill from there. Though there wasn’t much to “Snapshot,” it was entertaining enough (other than the protagonist’s weight-based self loathing). “Loaded” was absolutely not what I needed to read in the wake of the 2024 elections. “Aloft,” though the opposite of its predecessor in many ways, was also hard to get through. I’d previously read the graphic novel adaptation of “Rain” (lured in by Zoe Thorogood’s art), but I decided to give it a try anyway. When I got to the part about the dying cat, I called it done. Also though I feel it’s unfair to critique Hill’s work by comparing it to his dad’s writing, the structural similarities between this and Different Seasons are a little hard to ignore.

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