I could not stop reading this book. While my average across all the short stories was a 3.7, the lowest stories never went below a 2 and the 5’s were high fives. The experience reading this was a solid 5. I need to go out and buy a physical copy. I made so many digital annotations. 

What else can I say? I have so many new favorite authors that I want to read more from. Every story fit into the anthology perfectly, and even though some were not to my taste, they were all crafted well and entertaining in their own right. I’m pretty much obsessed. I hope this anthology and these authors see success, I hope we see more horror centering black girls - who live!! This is the kind of quality horror the youth/YA audiences deserve. 

My favorites included:
Harvesters - absolutely classic
Welcome Back to the Cosmos - SO happy to see a SciFi horror!!
Black Pride - my annotation just reads “hot”
Inheritance - VERY cool lore
The Skittering Thing - gave me chills
Foxhunt - spectacular, chef kiss. It made me cry. 

All opinions are my own. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in return for my honest review.