Book Review: Fresh Ink: An Anthology

Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written--whose next chapters are up to you.

Because these stories are meant to be read. And shared.

Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print. This collection addresses topics like gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty and ranges in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance. It will inspire you to break conventions, bend the rules, and color outside the lines. All you need is fresh ink.

AUTHORS INCLUDE: Schuyler Bailar, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Sharon G. Flake, Eric Gansworth, Malindo Lo, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Aminah Mae Safi, Gene Luen Yang, Nicola Yoon

Review

This was a nice anthology that features diverse characters. We had a few f/f stories and a transgender story that was written by a transgender author. As a reader of color inclusion is very important to me. I wish I had a book like this when I was teenager but as an adult I still appreciated this story and hope we got more books like this going forward. Majority of these authors are new to me and I wasn’t disappointed. Some stories I liked more than others but overall I was impressed with this anthology. ⁣
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⁣Listed below are the stories that stood out to me. ⁣
⁣Meet Cute by Malinda Lo⁣
Tags by Walter Dean Myers ⁣
Superhuman by Nicola Yoon ⁣
Why I Learned to Cook by Sara Farizan ⁣
One Voice by Melissa da la Cruz ⁣
Catch, Pull, Drive by Schuyler Baliar⁣
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