A review by maxcfb
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Nicole Melleby, Katherine Locke

5.0

"If you read just one story about an LGBTQ+ individual, you would hear only from someone of *this* identity, or someone whose parents are *this* accepting, or someone who is able to be *this* out in their lives, or someone whose identity is *this* relevant to their story. But if you read the 16 different stories in This Is Our Rainbow, you get to see the diversity within the diversity, so to speak, as its protagonists navigate all different kinds of identities and circumstances, with their LGBTQ+ identities sometimes fading into the background almost completely and sometimes being a major topic...This book is a reminder that anthologies really can illustrate the diversity of experiences within a certain group far better than individual stories can...With every single story being so meaningful and so well-written, This Is Our Rainbow cements itself not only as valuable representation for young readers, but also just as an extremely enjoyable collection of short stories that is absolutely worth a read!"

– A quote from my review (click here to see the full review on my blog!)