Schoolbooks & Sorcery: An Anthology of Inclusive YA Fantasy

This was a really cute little collection! I adore urban fantasy and while I usually lean towards the more gritty, adult centered worlds when I read I still enjoyed these stories. The characters were very diverse and I'm glad that each story had unique worlds and magic systems, because for some reason I thought they would all operate in the same world when I read the synopsis. It still would've been good if they had, but each magic system and environment were different and that added some lovely flavor to each of them.

The stories were much more gender and sexuality-wise diverse than religious or race, but I still think that the authors did the representation pretty well overall! I feel like its rare to find urban fantasy – or even fantasy, though it's getting better – that is truly diverse more than just having one character who is queer or a poc, but none of these stories fell into this trap. Overall, I had a good time!