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jersy's review against another edition
4.0
Anthologies are always hard to rate, since of course you won’t like every story, but with this one I find it especially difficult. There is a good chunk of stories that are phenomenal and really deserve to be nominated for prices, that have great, creative SFF ideas and execute them in a meaningful, emotional way, but then there are stories that I think belong more into the genre of contemporary, with tagged on speculative elements that in some cases didn’t affect the plot or the core of the conflict. Some of them I still enjoyed, with topics of identity and coming of age executed well, but it´s just not what I like to read about and apart from that, often they didn’t deliver a very unique take on it. There was a variety of styles and subjects in this collection, but the theme of “pretty much a YA/New Adult contemporary story” stood out.
Highlights include the stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Xia Jia, Eugie Foster and Yoon Ha Lee, just to name a few, and I’m settling on a 4 star rating, since there are so many I would award 5 stars that they just pull the collection up. However, there is enough that for me just didn’t fit (which of course isn’t the editors fault since this was a long list) and didn’t do much for me, while additionally there will always just be stories that one doesn’t particularly connect to even if there’s not much wrong with them.
jetamors's review against another edition
5.0
I liked almost everything in this collection, but my favorite story was "A Kiss with Teeth" by Max Gladstone.
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