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Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Jenn Northington, Swapna Krishna
4.0
adventurous emotional inspiring sad
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 …technically I finished this before midnight, but it was already the first shabbos of 2022 so we’re calling it book 1 of a new year. 
Anyway, this was a gorgeous story collection. As with any collection, there were stories I loved more, but none of them missed the mark for me, which was pretty impressive. 
My absolute favorite was Maria Dahvana Headley’s, which I finished and then had to walk away and stop to process it. I love her sense of how to retell a story (why haven’t I gotten around to her Beowulf yet??) It was brilliant. 
But the whole collection was precisely what I wanted. 
Definitely the way I wanted to begin the year.