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A review by simonlorden
Pick Your Potion by Ephiny Gale
4.0
I received an ARC through NetGalley, and this is my voluntary and honest review.
Pick Your Potion has a very accurate title, and a corresponding introduction - you feel like you're standing in a magic shop and picking from all the different, weird-colored potions. 26 stories focusing on women, many of them queer women, ranging from fantasy to sci-fi and sometimes just... weird. You're probably not going to like every story, but you'll almost definitely have at least a few that you do.
For me, I admit there were a couple that just went past my weirdness meter, and I still wonder what they were even about (and the introduction did not give enough context). But most of them were enjoyable, and just genuinely really fun and colorful ideas. I would read full-length novels based on some of them. There is also a list of content warnings for all the stories at the end.
Some of my favorite story ideas were:
- A magical/cursed board game that can make your wishes come true, but it might have a price you're not prepared to pay.
- The "little kid being the Chosen One" trope in a new coat.
- A new technological marvel that lets you experience somebody's memories and live vicariously through them.
- Virtual pets that feel like real ones and only you can see them and wow it's kind of messed up.
- Three girls save the world with the power of AUTISM.
Pick Your Potion has a very accurate title, and a corresponding introduction - you feel like you're standing in a magic shop and picking from all the different, weird-colored potions. 26 stories focusing on women, many of them queer women, ranging from fantasy to sci-fi and sometimes just... weird. You're probably not going to like every story, but you'll almost definitely have at least a few that you do.
For me, I admit there were a couple that just went past my weirdness meter, and I still wonder what they were even about (and the introduction did not give enough context). But most of them were enjoyable, and just genuinely really fun and colorful ideas. I would read full-length novels based on some of them. There is also a list of content warnings for all the stories at the end.
Some of my favorite story ideas were:
- A magical/cursed board game that can make your wishes come true, but it might have a price you're not prepared to pay.
- The "little kid being the Chosen One" trope in a new coat.
- A new technological marvel that lets you experience somebody's memories and live vicariously through them.
- Virtual pets that feel like real ones and only you can see them and wow it's kind of messed up.
- Three girls save the world with the power of AUTISM.