Review: Serendipity

• Title: Serendipity (Anthology)

• Authors: Marissa Meyer / Elise Bryant / Elizabeth Eulberg / Leah Johnson / Anna-Marie McLemore / Sandhya Menon / Julie Murphy / Caleb Roehrig / Sarah Winifred Searle / Abigail Hing Wen

• Series: N/A

• Genre: YA Romance

• Rating: ☆☆☆

If you like YA romance set in high school, then this book is a cute read that covers a lot of different romance tropes. It would be easy to break it up if you’d like to read a little each day, as each of the 10 stories are short enough to get through in a quick reading session, but are long enough to complete what the author set out to achieve. I liked that there was a lot of diversity in the stories, through both sexual orientation and ethnicity. Serendipity felt like a melting pot of good ideas and writing. I liked that each author had a trope to work within the bounds of, and some of them pulled it off exceptionally well. Others, I did feel lost some of their spark throughout or didn’t fit what I would class as a typical version of the said trope. I admittedly didn’t like all the stories in this book, but I did enjoy reading from authors I’ve never done so before. Whilst there wasn’t anything outstanding that occurred in this anthology, it does make for a sweet read. I personally don’t read high school based romances often, as I’m a little too old for that, so when I realised that every story would be set like that (why this didn’t occur to me when it was marketed as a YA romance book), I was a little disappointed, but that’s a me problem.