A review by coinmanatee
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling by Michael R. Underwood, Michael Matheson, Alisa Schreibman, Rati Mehrotra, A.C. Wise, Greg Stolze, Naomi Kanakia, Jaym Gates, Anton Strout, Shanna Germain, Monica Valentinelli, Alex Shvartsman, Michelle Lyons-McFarland, Victor Raymond, Nisi Shawl, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Kat Richardson, Sara M. Harvey, Alethea Kontis, Alyssa Wong, Michelle Muenzler, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Katy Harrad, Lucy A. Snyder, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Patrick Hester, Delilah S. Dawson, John Hornor Jacobs, Adam-Troy Castro, Maurice Broaddus, Ferrett Steinmetz, Haralambi Markov, Michael Choi, Sunil Patel
challenging
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
There are some stories in here that I don't think quite live up to the premise of interrogating a trope. But for the most part, very good stories. For awhile I was reading them once per day, then somewhere near the last third I had to read them one after the other.