The Collectors

As someone who likes collecting stuff (everything dinosaur related, rocky horror related, and coins I find on the ground) the entire concept of this book was really intriguing to me.

This was a really cool and strange anthology with each story vastly different from the next. My personal favorites were Take it From Me (by David Levithan) (nonbinary protagonist and love interest!!), Ring of Fire (by Jenny Torres Sanchez), and Sweet Everlasting (by M.T. Anderson)

Some stories get a bit dark so content warning for racism, abuse, and death/abandonment of family but nothing too triggering in my opinion.

This was a gritty, strange, almost ethereal collection of fascinating stories. I'm here for it. I can't even really pick a favorite because they're all so wildly different, but G. Neri and Jason Reynolds probably had the most accessible stories of the bunch and I really liked them. It's a wild ride of a collection and worth a read. That being said, I do not know a teen I would give this to.

I (like many, I imagine) was a lil surprised when this won the Printz this year but you know what? I should have trusted AS King. This is a banger anthology. I think my fav was Cory McCarthy's “Misery Museum.” And I also loved King's introduction about why she's fascinated by collectors/collections and what kind of power they have