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Nice piece of fanfiction. I liked the glimpse into the HP universe after all these years, but I don't know if a novel wouldn't have been better. Everything feels too quick, too hastly and if it would take place on a stage with a cardboard set. I am missing the details, the depth of the books. The story is interesting, but I do like time traveling stories, so YMMV. It felt like a particular good episode of Doctor Who with the cast of Harry Potter. Entertaining and nice, even if I kept asking myself how they are going to do all the magic special effects on a stage. Read if you are a fan (who isn't?), keep away if you are not or if you hate/want to forget the epilogue that shall not be mentioned.

I needed something thin to finish my goodreafs challenge and found this book my little brother had to read for school. It's a gut-wrenching story about a boy who lives in a tree and tells the other children in his class that nothing has meaning in life. They try to prove him wrong by collecting a mountain of things with special meaning. Their quest turns ugly as each request gets more daring and morbid as the next one. The end is heartbreaking. Definitely not an easy book, but I would be curious how this is talked about in class.

I guess the premise and title are quite cis-sexist, so that's a minus. For the rest, I liked most of the stories, some were really excellent. Only "This Alakie and Death of Dima" wasn't for my taste as the language was too complicated and constructed to follow the storyline, even if I liked the idea of plant-based beings a lot. If you like sci-fi and want to get to know some new authors, take a look at this fine collection of short stories. My favourites were "The Shape of tought" by Ken Liu and "Landfall from the blood star frontier" by Joan Slonczewski.