{"id":19289,"date":"2025-05-05T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=19289"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:06:57","slug":"review-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19290\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-craft\/craft\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?fit=971%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"971,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"craft\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?fit=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19290\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?resize=227%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\" width=\"227\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?resize=227%2C350&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?resize=768%2C1186&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/craft.jpg?w=971&amp;ssl=1 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 85vw, 227px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Craft-Stories-I-Wrote-Devil\/dp\/1250292972\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2551WZEKMI77A&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.L0yWCfo_qPMlfQc8px6XTg.mop7BR5COjz-iLMhhpDX0yrfQwupZsJptmzAcxol9j0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=craft+stories+i+wrote+for+the+devil+by+ananda+lima&amp;qid=1730251865&amp;sprefix=Craft%3A+Stories+I+Wrote+for+the+Devil+by+Ananda+Lima%2Caps%2C216&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0by Ananda Lima<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tor Books (June 2024)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by Chandra Claypool (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wherethereadergrows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/wherethereadergrows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imaging meeting the Devil at a bar and they convince you that you\u2019re kindred spirits because you both crave stories and you\u2019re just drunk and heartbroken enough to let them in.\u00a0 This book has a unique format in that there\u2019s stories within the main story.\u00a0 We follow the main character and her several encounters with the Devil as we get a peek into the stories she is writing for them.\u00a0 I absolutely love the cover for this as it shows this concept so well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this is touted as a horror book, it doesn\u2019t necessarily fit into the genre as I see it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even sure how I would categorize it because of the uniqueness of it.\u00a0 Maybe had the Devil shown their face more often within the read, it may have had more of that horror element, but otherwise it really read as more of a literary fiction type.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, I would rate this book down the middle.\u00a0 The author is also a poet and her writing absolutely shows this throughout the read.\u00a0 This type of writing doesn\u2019t particularly work well for me personally but I have all the respect for it. The biggest takeaway from this reading is that the author touches on strong subjects including politics, morality, sense of belonging and ambition.\u00a0 The way the author broaches these subjects is very well done.\u00a0 I just wish the stories themselves connected better and applaud the interesting style, even if it didn\u2019t quite work for this reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\u00a0by Ananda Lima Tor Books (June 2024) Reviewed by Chandra Claypool (Instagram) (TikTok) Imaging meeting the Devil at a bar and they convince you that you\u2019re kindred spirits because you both crave stories and you\u2019re just drunk and heartbroken enough to let them in.\u00a0 This book has a unique &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-craft\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[3271,3081,3270,79],"class_list":["post-19289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ananda-lima","tag-chandra-claypool","tag-craft-stories-i-wrote-for-the-devil","tag-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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