![]() ![]() ![]() I was pleasantly surprised by the depth and breadth of the stories themselves. I would have liked to see a closer hand at copyediting there were a number of very minor grammatical or spelling mistakes that took me out of the stories from time to time. Leib, seems to have paid close attention to the placement and order of the stories such that there are none of the disconcerting whiplash changes in tone or style you sometimes see in multi-author anthologies. The voices here are markedly different from story to story, but not jarringly so. I am the type where one weak story can ruin the whole book for me. That said, I’m also notoriously picky when it comes to short fiction anthologies, and especially multi-author short fiction anthologies. ![]() As someone living and growing a queer family who deeply loves speculative fiction, there was a good chance that I would like at least some of the stories here. The fifteen stories collected here are thematically joined by a focus on queer families as represented in speculative fiction. Take that as you may.įierce Family is anthology compiled and published by Crossed Genres. To that end, I’ve attempted to read it as if I didn’t contribute to it. NOTE: This anthology includes a story penned by me, so there exists an obvious conflict of interest involved in me reviewing it and liking it and stuff. ![]()
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