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Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love by Sangu Mandanna

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murryloub's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

As with any story collection, some were really good & some were kinda “meh.” I enjoyed the stories with fantastical elements more. I’m not a big romance person, so the ones set in the real world with regular teenagers were a little annoying to get through.

Favorites: Giving up the Ghost, Sandwiched in Between, Starlight and Moondust, Something Gay and Magical

Least Favorites: The Boy Is, Gilman Street, The Coward’s Guide to Falling in Love

biblioemily's review against another edition

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4.0

3.5 stars. None of the stories really jumped out at me or felt very significant, but it's still a short story collection I'm glad exists.

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4.0

Cute!

mora55's review against another edition

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Anthologies are great for my current attention span, which is Small!

I liked this one more than [b:Hungry Hearts|35858798|Hungry Hearts 13 Tales of Food & Love|Elsie Chapman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538684262l/35858798._SY75_.jpg|57378773], which I read earlier this week, simply because Hungry Hearts felt so limited by the need to be interconnected with the other stories and bound by its setting. My favorite stories in this anthology were "Yuna and the Wall" by Lydia Kang and "Faithfull" by Karunma Riazi. (Runners-up were "Death and the Maiden" by Tara Sim and "Giving Up the Ghost" by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas)