Trigger Warning (Neil Gaiman) - Review

I picked up this book as a recommendation from my local bookshop when I just started to get back into Neil Gaiman.
It sat on my shelf for several months before I decided to pick it up.
I was on a long and laborious train commute and had nothing to do, and this book became heaven sent.

Trigger Warning is a collection of Gaiman's short stories and it feels so tightly knit together.
I love the inconsistencies and how each written piece is different from the next one.

On this said train journey, I read through the Foreword, which went through the seeds planted for each story, their point of origin and their purpose.
I could feel Gaiman's voice reading it the way he does so well as I tried to imagine each setting in which each piece was written.

I ended up taking it with me everywhere from the bus stop to camps and took it out whenever I had some free time to let these words pour through my mind.

The stories span diversely far, from untold stories from the critically acclaimed American Gods to a short story written for Ray Bradbury's birthday.
Click-Clack the Rattlebag was among one of my favourites as I heard it read aloud by Neil Gaiman back in 2012 at the Melbourne Library, so thus the voice remained and heightened the reading experience for me. Nothing O'Clock and A Case of Death and Honey are among my two other favourites in the book, naturally because of their roots being Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes  might make it a bit bias, but meshed with a Gaiman twist makes it something entirely different.
It is one of those few books that you could give to anybody and they will take something from it, purely because each story is so different from the next.

Even if short stories aren't for you, this is one I would recommend to anybody.

8.5/10