A review by wanderlustlover
Sharp & Sugar Tooth by Catherynne M. Valente, Octavia Cade, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Betsy Aoki, H. Pueyo, Erin Horakova, Anahita Eftekhari, Caroline M. Yoachim, Jasmyne J. Harris, Alyssa Wong, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Rem Wigmore, Chikodili Emelumadu, Kathleen Alcalá, Penny Stirling, Rachael Sterling, A.R. Henle, Joyce Chng, Katharine Duckett, Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Amelia Gorman, Kathryn McMahon, Damien Angelica Walters

3.0

Thank you to Octavia Cade (editor), A. R. Henle, Alyssa Wong, Amelia Gorman, Anahita Eftekhari, Betsy Aoki, Caroline M. Yoachim, Catherynne M. Valente, Chikodili Emelumadu, Crystal Lynn Hilbert, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Damien Angelica Walters, Erin Horáková, H. Pueyo, Jasmyne J. Harris, Joyce Chng, Katharine Duckett, Kathleen Alcalá, Kathryn McMahon, Penny Stirling, Rachael Sterling, Rem Wigmore, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Upper Rubber Boot Books, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good” for an honest review.

I was so excited to hear about this anthology when I stumbled over it seeking new, upcoming releases by Cat Valente. There's such a wonderful way that one came play on the idea of appetites in a people and how that can relate to food, sex, death, and truly almost any part of what someone puts their focus on/passion into. That this was a book on women's appetited, and it was going to be the sweet ones and sharp ones, I was over the moon and had to have it immediately.

Sadly, I feel this whole book came off as trying too hard, as being an amazing concept but one lacking in execution.