Was super excited for an aro-centered anthology (especially one that doesn't treat aromanticism as synonymous with asexuality), but most of these are just... not very good :-( I get the sense a lot of the authors might not have had much experience with original short stories -- there's a certain awkwardness to the pacing of quite a few included here, particularly regarding character/relationship development and worldbuilding, that would indicate as much.

Besides that and the Generic YA Style™ several share, there's not much tying them all together either; I think I can actually easier count the ones that explicitly or heavily implicitly describe at least one main character as aro than the ones that don't. Stories with protagonists that happens to be aro without that factoring into the actual plot are all well and good, as are ones that just center around platonic relationships/lack romance, but somehow I expected a little more from something literally titled "an aromantic anthology"?

Only actively liked a couple of pieces, feel pretty "meh" about the rest. The poems are fine but again don't really fit the expressed theme.