A collection of short stories centering on the ace spectrum. Out of 14 I really enjoyed 9 stories, my absolute favorites being "How to love a side winder", "No Such Thing as Just" and "The third star" and even the 5 others I still enjoyed. We encounter a wide variety of ace people, some which consider their asexuality an important part of their identity and others were its more on the sidelines. I also liked the variety in genres from eldritch sci fi (that one reminded me a lot of The Outside by Ana Hoffmann, which I adored!), to a very Buffy-esque fantasy, fairytales with mermaid and some contemporary ones. The relationships are also varied, focussing on friends, family, romantic love and polyamory, good and bad ones. As is awknowledged in the foreword cis men don't feature in this anthology as authors except as the editor (there's some side characters that are ace men) and I really hope if we ever get more ace literature it will be easier to find these ace voices as well.
While some ace people are accepted and loved, many pieces in this anthology focus on a variety of prejudices faced by many asexual people everywhere (especially because of familial and romantic expectations of normative sexuality), so be prepared for that.
One think I think could have been done better is if the stories had been structured by genres instead of jumping around quite so much, as that sometimes threw me off.
All in all this is an interesting collection of speculative ace fiction and I would recommend it to people who crave more ace rep in these genres and teen readers.