Title: Flesh for Comfort
Author: Melissa Marr
In: Faery Tales & Nightmares (Melissa Marr)
Rating Out of 5: 4.5 (Amazing, but not quite perfect)
My Bookshelves: Fae, Horror
Pace: Fast
Format: Short story
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2012

This is kind of a horrifying short story. I mean, it’s a great reminder of the depths that people will strive to to try and look beautiful. To be what they perceive is the best way to escape whatever it is that they are escaping. But it is also seriously horrifying. I mean, it’s Marr and fae-like creatures offering a deal… you know from the very beginning that there’s going to be a pretty giant catch.

Marr has always written the type of fae books that I enjoy – ones that show you no good can ever come from making a deal with these beings. And that to always tread lightly in such a circumstance. It definitely makes me wary of accepting any kind of deal without knowing all of the ins and outs.

The lead character in this tale will do everything she possibly can to escape her small town and unwelcome situation. She is willing to do literally anything. And, even after making the deal from hell, she is willing to go back and make that deal again and again… definitely a disturbing short story.

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