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Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology by C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders, Claudie Arseneault, RoAnna Sylver

3 reviews

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Vomit, Torture, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Gore, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

valereads's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual assault

pastelkerstin's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Rating anthologies is always hard. I liked some of the stories more than others, as I always do, but this was definitely a nice collection of works.
Most of the poetry wasn't actually explicitly speculative, but it was heartfelt, so I'm not mad about it, it just made me go "Hmm" when I realised that.

Also, just wanted to let you know that I read part of this book on Valentine's Day out of spite lol.

Also also, I'm honoured to be internet friends with Laya who did the cover art for this book. Beautiful work as always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

There are content warnings for the individual stories at the beginning of the book, but I think "Fishing Over The Bones of the Dragon" should have more. It lists "Death imagery, alcohol" but I'd also add torture and sexual abuse. It's the darkest story out of the bunch and should have had more warnings imo.