A review by sanamun
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction by Elspeth Potter, Joshua Lewis, Steve Berman, Christopher Barzak, Catherine Lundoff, Holly Black, Eric Andrews-Katz, Cassandra Clare, Sean Meriwether, Carl Vaughn Frick, Eugie Foster, Kenneth D. Woods, Delia Sherman, Laurie J. Marks, Ruby deBrazier, Tom Cardamone, Lynne Jamneck, Aynjel Kaye, Sarah Monette, Richard Bowes, Craig Laurance Gidney, M. Kate Havas, Melissa Scott
4.0
Not perfect, but definitely good.
I was wavering between 3 and 4 stars but ended up going high based on my love for faeries, queerness, and short stories. On a technical level, the formatting of this book on Kindle was kind of weird, likely due to its age, since I don't think it was originally intended as an ebook. There was a lot of variation in the stories included, in tone, setting, and interpretation of what "faerie" means, and a nice balance between cute queer romance and fae mystery and creepiness, even if one of two stories inevitably didn't grab me as much as the others.
Favourite stories: "A Bird of Ice", "From Asphalt to Emeralds and Moonlight", "The Coat of Stars", "Year of the Fox".
I was wavering between 3 and 4 stars but ended up going high based on my love for faeries, queerness, and short stories. On a technical level, the formatting of this book on Kindle was kind of weird, likely due to its age, since I don't think it was originally intended as an ebook. There was a lot of variation in the stories included, in tone, setting, and interpretation of what "faerie" means, and a nice balance between cute queer romance and fae mystery and creepiness, even if one of two stories inevitably didn't grab me as much as the others.
Favourite stories: "A Bird of Ice", "From Asphalt to Emeralds and Moonlight", "The Coat of Stars", "Year of the Fox".