Here's a quick general overview of my thoughts before we get into the actual reviews:
1) Witchy stories really like sister relationships and I am so here for it.
2) Looking back, I'm fairly certain each story contained either a woman of colour and/or a queer woman, something which is absolutely incredible.
3) Also, a lot of the authors are women of colour or queer women, so thank you to Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe for including such a wonderful variety of authors in your anthology.
4) No matter what rating I gave it, I don't regret reading a single one of these stories.

1. STARSONG - Tehlor Kay Mejia ★★★★
TW: death of a loved one, drug overdose
This was a great way to start off this collection!! It's about a latinx teenager who's popular online, is really into astrology and make-up, and also happens to read charts and horoscopes for people. The start is very introspective, mostly just about Luna's magic, her tía, who also had magic and died, and Luna's recent overdose. Then, after a fight with her mamí, Luna decides to start a science vs magic debate with a cute girl on Instagram, and suddenly it became a romcom. This story ended too soon, honestly. I just wanted more of Luna and her life, and I would definitely not be opposed to reading an entire book of this. Also, the start had Luna reading the charts of a polyamorous couple and it was treated completely normally. YES, let's keep normalising poly relationships!

2. AFTERBIRTH - Andrea Cremer ★★★
TW: complications during childbirth
This one was a bit of a weirder one. It's set in 1650 and we're shown a difficult birth that ends up suggesting that the mother in question is into some witchy/devilish things, all spliced with transcripts of testimonies as the midwife who delivered the baby is put on trial for witchcraft. At the centre of the story is a spellbook which has been passed down for generations, which I've just discovered is a favourite witchy trope of mine.

3. THE HEART IN HER HANDS - Tess Sharpe ★★★★★
TW: loss of a loved one
It feels as if this short story was written for me. 1) The entire thing revolves around soulmarks (aka the first words your soulmate says to you are on your skin) which is one of my all-time favourite fanfic tropes. 2) There are loving descriptions of tea. 3) A soft f/f friends-to-lovers romance at the centre of it. 4) Despite the soulmarks, the characters stick the bird up at Fate because true love. I know this won't be the most beautiful or impactful of this collection, but it's definitely going to remain one of my favourites.

4. DEATH IN THE SAWTOOTHS - Lindsay Smith ★★★
TW: bullying, death threats, death, autopsy
This was fairly average, but by no means unenjoyable. It's about a girl called Mattie who serves the Lady of Slumber by giving her the souls of the dead, but there's a lot of hatred around her because of the heinous crimes her followers commit in her name. Then something strange happens with a person's soul and Mattie has to try to figure out what's up. This was a fun read that had a nice message about prejudice.

5. THE TRUTH ABOUT QUEENIE - Brandy Colbert ★½
TW: hospitalisation, death, infidelity
This is an unpopular opinion but I wasn't a fan of this one. I really liked the start of this one, with Queenie and her grandmother, and I loved that the entire story was about black witches. But then it became way too much about teen drama, specifically Queenie and Webb's relationship which I just never cared about.

Spoiler

Especially when he kissed her when he had a girlfriend!

I appreciated the lack of girl hate between Queenie and Blythe, and I liked the characters and diversity (the line So, white people get to be witches, but we don't? That doesn't seem fair had me cracking up), but this was just too much romantic drama and not enough magic.
EDIT: It's worth noting that as time has gone on, I've dropped this a full star because that's how much I didn't care.

6. MOONAPPLE MENAGERIE - Shveta Thakrar ★
From what I've seen, this is across the board a lot of peoples' least favourite of the collection, and I unfortunately have to agree. The worst part is that the concept could be so cool: it's about a coven who puts on a play every year and this year the main character has convinced her coven to let her write the play, but the ending isn't coming to her so she makes a deal with an evil... magical being (sorry, I genuinely have no idea what they're meant to be). But it was executed so poorly. The characters were bland, I genuinely couldn't remember who anyone was page-to-page, and the plot became a confusing mess.

7. THE LEGEND OF STONE MARY - Robin Talley ★★★★
TW: bullying, death
I don't use this word to describe things very often, but this was a lovely story. It's about the descendant of a Mary Keegan, a woman who was chased by a mob centuries ago for being a witch and froze to death, supposedly putting a curse on the town before her death. This story was so atmospheric, particularly towards the end, and the telling of Mary's story was incorporated incredibly fluidly into the main narrative. There was also a cute f/f romance that had a bit of a twist at the end, and I wouldn't be opposed to Robin Talley expanding this story a little. The highlight of this story, though, was the theme of forgiveness that runs through the whole thing, and as cheesy as it is that end scene is what bumped this rating up to a four.

8. THE ONE WHO STAYED - Nova Ren Suma ★★★★★
TW: molestation, incest, sexual assault, gang rape
This might be the most gut-wrenching thing I've read in my entire life. This is one of the shortest of the collection, but so impactful. Despite being less than 20 pages, the dread that builds as you know what's going to happen to the main character even as she's oblivious is awful and incredible in equal measures. There's lots of vague language in this, which somehow makes the story even more impactful. Nova Ren Suma is a genius and I can't wait to read more of her work.

9. DIVINE ARE THE STARS - Zoraida Córdova ★★★★★
TW: loss of a loved one
This was a beautiful #ownvoices latinx story about two cousins who are visiting their dying grandmother along with the rest of their family, all of who are only there to see what she's leaving them. This is kind of weird, but I love that super specific trope of a matriarch/patriarch dying, the main character is the favourite of the matriarch/patriarch & there's that one dickish family member who's only in it for themselves. It's a massive cliche, but I really love it and that's exactly what this story is, as well as having beautiful cousin and grandmother-grandchildren relationships, and fantastic magical realism elements. Honestly, I don't even know if this is coherent, but I loved this story and I want a full-length version, or at least a novella.

10. DAUGHTERS OF BABA YAGA - Brenna Yovanoff ★★★½
TW: violence, slut shaming, animal gore
This is a story about teenage witches who are Done. Done with bullying, done with being called whores, done with the way the world treats them. Just completely done. And I loved it for that. Along with those themes of getting revenge against those who deserve it, there was also an underlying theme of fitting it. More specifically, fitting in with American culture when your family isn't American, something which is surprisingly not touched on very much in fiction and should be explored more. Overall, a really fun story, and the one which has thus far been most successful in making me want to become a witch.

11. THE WELL WITCH - Kate Hart ★★★
TW: racism, animal cruelty, death
From what I've seen this is a somewhat unpopular opinion, but I quite enjoyed this one. It's about a woman living alone in the 'oasis' in 1875 Texas after the death of her mother and disappearance of her father. That is, until three strange and possibly dangerous men show up, and trouble starts from there. I'll admit, the way the story panned out could have been better, but on the whole I liked it. I loved Elsa as a character, and was very surprised at how much I cared about the romantic aspects. This is also one that I would love to see as a short film, because I think the setting and plot really lends itself to that medium.

12. BEWARE OF GIRLS WITH CROOKED MOUTHS - Jessica Spotswood ★★
TW: death, poison, roofie (love potion)
Well damn, I'm just full of unpopular opinions aren't I. This story is getting constantly compared to Three Dark Crowns as it centres around three sisters who come from a long line of witches who have gone mad and murdered their sisters, leaving only one witch a generation. And, like TDC, this book was all potential with no pay-off. Which was frustrating because it started off so well. We had three sisters who, despite what their mother always advised, refused to hate each other and only grew closer after her death. The three sisters were all interesting and had cool powers (Jo gets visions, Elle is a poisoner, and Georgie can make fire). Elle was bisexual and in love with a woman, and queer relationships were so normal there was a high-class family arranging an f/f relationship. But then it ended and it felt so incomplete. Still, I would love a full-length novel, if only so I can get some semblance of closure.

13. LOVE SPELL - Anna-Marie McLemore ★★★★
This was a simple, beautiful story full of magic and latinx culture, as should be expected of all Anna-Marie McLemore's work. Going a bit off track, I love how many stories in this collection focus on latinx women, written by latinx authors. All of them are inserting their culture so beautifully into their stories, and it's making the collection as a whole more interesting. Anyway, back to this story. As I said, it's a simple one: a bruja in a small town who cures lovesickness with her tía falls in love with a trans boy who's a part of the church. This story reminded me a lot of When the Moon Was Ours, and it was so lovely I nearly started crying halfway through for no reason. Anna-Marie McLemore is so talented it's insane.

14. THE GHERIN GIRLS - Emery Lord ★★★★★
TW: domestic abuse, animal abuse, gaslighting, mentioned harassment
This was so much more beautiful than I was expecting. It's about three sisters with special gifts who are spending quality time together because one of them has come home for a while. However, her final night is shaken up by the return of another sister's abusive ex boyfriend. This story had such a wonderful look at abusive relationships (that sounds bad but I couldn't find a better way to phrase it). It drives home the fact that it's the abusers fault, never the victims, that toxic relationships can be incredibly hard to leave, and that the victim isn't at fault for not realising their s/o's toxic behaviour. Not only that, but I loved that it was all about sisters supporting sisters, and not even entirely to do with the abuse (though that is a big part). One of the sisters was also (in my opinion) pretty heavily coded to be demisexual and another is wlw, which I thought was pretty cool.

15. WHY THEY WATCH US BURN - Elizabeth May ★★★★★
TW: mentioned sexual assault
I was literally shaking as I read this story. God, what a powerful end to this collection. This is a story that follows a girl who is sent to a labor camp after a sexual assault, along with other women accused of being witches for their 'sinful ways'. It's about thirteen girls, all so different and yet so similar, who must suffer together. They support one another in every way they can, whether it's selling their bodies to get the others food or just comforting another girl. This was such a magnificent story about the power of women, and it urges you to not forget these girls, to not forget those who have suffered. I just... this was so gorgeous. I'm running out of adjectives, but even if you don't care about a single other story in this entire anthology, please, please, please find a way to read this particular one.

Overall, I gave this anthology series 54 stars out of a possible 75, which (after do a lot of simple maths that my idiot brain had a hard time with) added up to around a 3.5 rating. But, honestly, some of these stories felt like they deserved more than five stars, so I'm going to bump it up to a four. I would highly recommend everyone read this, even if it's only for a few stories (seriously, read Why They Watch Us Burn, it will change your life).