Love in Colour

Like most anthologies, the quality of the individual stories was uneven. I loved some and felt meh about the others.

Amazing writing ! Each story could be a full length book, I wanted to know more about so many of the characters and was sad when some of them were over. I am not normally a romance kinda girl but after this seriously considering picking up her other book!

This took me way too long to finish, but that was because I wanted to be able to sit and read an entire short story in one sitting, to let it wash over me, and apparently I don't sit down and read for long anymore. #sad

But I absolutely loved most of these stories, they took traditional myths and stories from a whole bunch of different places (Persia, Greece, Nigeria, Lesotho, Senegal ... and that's just off the top of my head) and reimagined them so they were love stories, mostly in modern times, and where the women had agency! There were also some original stories at the end of the book.

In flipping back through, I realized that almost all of these women's stories was completely memorable in the telling. An exceptional feat, especially because ... well, the first sentence of this review. Plus, I finished several of these with a big smile on my face.

I think my favorites were Orin, Naleli, Thisbe, and Nefertiti, but I don't think there was a weak story in this collection.