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A review by angryangryalice
Even If The Sky is Falling by Farah Heron, Denise Williams, Taj McCoy, Sarah Smith, Charish Reid, Lane Clarke
4.0
This collection of short stories revolves around a really fun and creative premise. In the near future, someone accidentally sets off NASA's meteor warning system, which sends a phone alert to everyone in the US telling them to take cover. Naturally, people look for companionship when they think the world is ending, and we get to follow six couples as they confront existential questions about life...and fall in love:
—A second chance romance between two NASA specialists who are stuck in a bunker together on the mission that accidentally sets off the alert system.
—Competing curry-based food stall owners who are childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers who have a chance to mend their families' generations-old grudges. (This story was my favorite and I would honestly love to read it as a full-length novel!!!)
—A queer enemies-to-lovers story between two Black law students forced to settle their differences while stuck in their university's library.
—An extremely shy professor finally asks out the hunky bookstore owner she's been crushing on mere seconds before the emergency alert goes off.
—A songwriter and her new contractor hunker down for an extremely steamy shelter-in-place.
—Former college rivals return to campus for an award ceremony but end up alone in their old academic building, left to work out their old grievances and discover new love.
—A second chance romance between two NASA specialists who are stuck in a bunker together on the mission that accidentally sets off the alert system.
—Competing curry-based food stall owners who are childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers who have a chance to mend their families' generations-old grudges. (This story was my favorite and I would honestly love to read it as a full-length novel!!!)
—A queer enemies-to-lovers story between two Black law students forced to settle their differences while stuck in their university's library.
—An extremely shy professor finally asks out the hunky bookstore owner she's been crushing on mere seconds before the emergency alert goes off.
—A songwriter and her new contractor hunker down for an extremely steamy shelter-in-place.
—Former college rivals return to campus for an award ceremony but end up alone in their old academic building, left to work out their old grievances and discover new love.