Bumpy Oak Books

**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.

Avg rating: 3.82

I always have the hardest time rating anthologies and short story collections, so I’ve decided to give each story an individual rating and average them to the overall score. For the star rating, I rounded up 🙂

For any short story collection, there will be some that strike better with one reader than another, and generally some stories are preferred to others in the collection. This short story collection stays true to that theory. None of the stories individually fell below 3 stars for me, and four of the stories were actually 5 stars, which was a wonderful surprise.

In general, if you like Seanan McGuire’s writing already, then I would say you’ll also like it in this. There is a little bit of playfulness with formatting for some of the stories, which was fun, if not always my favorite.

The concepts in this collection were really cool to think about, even outside of the stories that were actually presented. If you’re a fan of short stories, Seanan McGuire, or speculative scifi/fantasy, this should be a good collection for you.