This Skin Was Once Mine is a short collection of four horror stories. The horror in each story derives from a character's mental derangement which turns out to be greater than it seems and/or falls prey to even greater derangement in another character character.
The plots were fine but the stories disappointed me for three reasons:
- None of the characters think or act like normal human beings
- The metaphors for emotional trauma were obvious and not developed in any insightful way
- The prose was clichéd and repetitive
The title story did surprise me. It broadly telegraphs that the narrator's troubles come from misinterpreting why her parents forced her out of the house twenty years before, but her reaction to the truth is unexpected and interesting. Alas, LaRocca adds two more unnecessary plot twists.
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