This review is hard to write because it’s a compilation of short stories all by different authors. Some I really like and some a really didn’t like. Overall, I would say I felt pretty meh about most of them. I think in general this book shows me that maybe short story isn’t the best format for the romantasy genre. However I don’t want to be too overly critical because there were a couple stories here that I really, really liked!

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest rating and review.

Understandably and as with most anthologies, this is a mixed bags. Some were excellent and some were meh, but overall a good mix and introduced me to some new to me authors, so overall worth a read

These stories are really cool. Some are little more than vignettes, but the world building is so complete that I got sucked into each one. My only nitpick is that the final story ended so melancholically. I was hoping to finish the anthology on a happier note. Highlights for me were stories by Megan Bannen, Kelley Armstrong, Kelly Andrew, Olivie Blake. Thanks to Titan for the ARC.

This is a truly fantastic anthology of short stories for Romantasy fans. As with all collections like this some were more to my taste than others but every story was well written and original.

Among my favourites were Kelley Armstrong’s “Designated Virgin sacrifice”, about a girl who decides to step up and slay the world’s monsters, it’s a sweet story with an excellent twist and A.C. Wise’s cute urban love story “Slay the princess, save the dragon”.

By far the standout for me was Kelly Andrew’s beautiful time travel love story, “Until December”. She was a new author to me and I will definitely be looking at her other work.

Overall, this book is the one that I am going to recommend when someone has just devoured Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses and is wondering what to read next because they will find their next favourite Romantasy author here.

Honestly anthologies are really hard to review because some stories will work better in this shorter condensed form than others. Many of the stories follow a similar formula since the authors are condensed in a way that does not spring off of original material like fanfiction does so there is a lot of world building done.
My favorite stories were Until December, The King's Witch, Designated Virgin Sacrifice, Slay the Princess Save the Dragon, and Rosebud.

I loved this! It had a lot of different authors such as Olivie Blake (who I adore) and had a mix of romance, paranormal and fantasy stories. I love books like this whether you are unable to have time to sit down to read a full story or in a reading slump that you can dip in and out of but still have to e satisfaction of reading a great story! It was such an easy book to read and I throughly recommend.

This was such a great compilation book filled with a great mix of authors combing both romance and fantasy into a great variety of stories. I love books like this whether you are unable to have time to sit down to read a full story or in a reading slump that you can dip in and out of but still have to e satisfaction of reading a great story! This was the first I’ve seen of romance and a bit of supernatural so that was a really fun aspect