A review by wanderlustlover
Project Unicorn, Volume 2: 30 Young Adult Short Stories Featuring Lesbian Heroines by Jennifer Diemer

5.0

Artificial Hearts

I am head over heels in love with this newest release from Sarah and Jenn. I had read 70% of the stories, like always on blog that releases them twice a week free, but I'm always racing for the editions released for all the new stories. I was so in love with these stories. Girls made as instruments, clones who have different heart and souls, Girls who are ships, creations. All the stories of freedom and love and longing and hope and fighting back, and standing up, of wanting more and reaching for the stars.

I cannot ever say enough about these amazing stories and the work they are doing building a stunning new mythos of brave, beautiful multifaceted women for young gay women to grow up with. My hat is off to you all over again.

Myth, Magic and Glitter

Guh. I continue to deeply love all the stories that Jenn and Sarah write for Project Unicorn. They are all multifaceted and almost completely different (with admittedly a specific theme to each of the set books), but they are so glorious. I truly cannot rec this whole set of stories of LGBT girls(-boys) enough.

My favorites of this set by Jenn were "Flowers for Clouds" (which has Cherry Blossoms, gods and mortals) and "Even in Another Time" (which has Sappho in the past, and beautiful mortal girls in the present). My favorites of this set by Sarah were "True if by Sea" (which is the first transgender tale, WOOT) and "Dear Salome" (where we reclaim even slut shaming and fierce pride).

Winged Things

Guh.


Just guh.


I usually tell you about all my favorite stories by each person in these reviews (and I did love the whole thing). But there was one above and beyond in this one that gutted me, from thoughts to heart, once again, yanking the floor out from under me on what I expect from Jenn & Sarah's stories. Things that shoot them even higher, take their mastery to even broader strokes.

If you read this collection for nothing else, read it for "The Gray Road." I teared up and it was perfect, beautiful, amazing, painful, heart breaking all at once. And I will keep it tucked in my hat with the other pieces these beautiful women write, covering every single part and parcel of the life of amazing gay girls in our world and every world.