_readwithash's review
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
5.0
Weird Black Girls is a masterpiece. Each of these speculative fiction short stories evokes every possible emotion. Elwin captures small moments or feelings with incredible accuracy, and he takes us through his often bizarre, but incredibly impactful, imagination. These stories are queer, black, and nerdy, while being painful, hopeful, or most often melancholic. My favorite of the stories, "Things I Never Learned in Caitlin Clarke's Intro to Acting Class", is the perfect love, or not love, story. The ending left me both shocked and devastated, while also knowing that it couldn't end any other way.
Truly, I cannot recommend this anthology enough. It is most definitely the best collection of short stories I have ever read.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me a review copy in exchange for an honest review.
Truly, I cannot recommend this anthology enough. It is most definitely the best collection of short stories I have ever read.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me a review copy in exchange for an honest review.
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