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The Unicorn Anthology by Peter S. Beagle, Jacob Weisman
3.0

I really wanted to love this anthology, there were a lot of authors I really enjoy included. However, it fell short. VERY short.
It's understandable for someone to not love every story in an anthology, they are a collection of stories aimed at variety with a common theme. I just couldn't find more than one that I really enjoyed. They were all decent, but none of them shined above the others the way one or two usually do.
The title is a bit misleading. Unicorns are not the star of most of these stories. They are simply side characters or background noise, if I'm honest. I'm just so incredibly disappointed in the collection. It's no fault of the writing as the writing is good, but most of these stories have been in previous anthologies, but they should have stayed there. There is not enough content to really be called "unicorn" centric.

This anthology earned a 3/5 star rating for me.
***This eGalley was provided via NetGalley by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.