Cat’s Reviews > All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages > Status Update
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story 2: "the sweet trade" this was just okay. felt a bit pop mid 2000s feminism, with the wlw just tacked on. felt a lot more queer when clara dressed as a boy than when they kissed. oh well. overthinking a 15 page ya short story but some engaging in clara and pearl's queerness specifically would have been leagues more interesting, even just a paragraph or two. oh well.
— Sep 13, 2024 11:19AM
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Cat
is on page 189 of 352
"every shade of red" by elliott wake --- this one was half-decent but i'm not raving the way other readers who gave this anthology middling reviews did. the way the bipoc characters are written in this feels.... Weird! i don't like it!
— Sep 29, 2024 06:52AM
Cat
is on page 84 of 352
mackenzi lee's story was pretty cute, but i am not super confident in saundra mitchell's skills as an editor? or whoever did the copy editing in this book because oh boy was this one riddled with mistakes that really, really should have been caught, especially before the paperback release. yikes.
— Sep 26, 2024 01:17PM
Cat
is on page 101 of 352
(reading these out of order) lads i think i might actually just read mackenzi lee's story and then dnf. this is painful
— Sep 15, 2024 12:25PM
Cat
is on page 31 of 352
going to do status updates at least periodically throughout methinks, since i only ever connect with short fiction and anthologies so much.
story 1: roja --- i enjoyed this well enough! my first proper exposure to mclemore's writing and i did like it, good descriptions and magical realism.
— Sep 02, 2024 12:56PM
story 1: roja --- i enjoyed this well enough! my first proper exposure to mclemore's writing and i did like it, good descriptions and magical realism.
