This is a very solid anthology! It's wonderful to read speculative fiction by and about Black women and girls. The stories are diverse in subject matter, tone, and style, so there is something for everyone. The common thread of hope and resiliance which spanned even the darker stories was lovely and heartwarming. As with most anthologies, not every story was to my taste, but they were all strong offerings and several were 5 star stories for me. I listened to the audiobook read by York Whitaker and I also just want to say how impressive that performance was, given the wildly different voices and tones Whitaker is capturing in different stories, which range from light and funny to moody and tragic to tense and vengeful, with topics from dragons to aliens to kitchen witches. Plus, there is queer rep in several stories, including nonbinary rep 😍.