Zombie story told in alternating points of view, first person and the unique second person. Love Will Tear Us Apart by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Without giving too much away, it is about a unicorn who commits a sort of murder for hire. I think I can best handle this review by going to go down through the twelve so you will know the titles, author, and a little bit about each one. Each and every one of the twelve stories, zombie ones included, was enjoyable and highly readable. Most were even more violent than the zombie stories. Most, if not all, would have happy endings. Six about&you guessed it&zombies.Īt first glance, I figured the unicorn stories would be more of the high fantasy, sort of castle and queen stuff. The result is the twelve short stories in this anthology. Each proceded to gather six amazing YA writers to prove their point. Black proclaiming that Unicorns were better. UNICORNS apparently started on the editors, Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, respective blogs. Plus with reading short stories, I can expose my students to more writers throughout the school year. I am able to cover some of the major topics they will need in high school like climax, conflict, and point of view quicker than reading full-length novel. I love using them as a teaching tool with my eighth graders. I first should say that I am a sucker for the short story form. UNICORNS might be my favorite read of 2010. This is a great way to dip your toe into both zombie and unicorn infested waters as well as introducing yourself to some very intriguing authors.ZOMBIES VS. I had a lot of fun reading this book and the dialogue between Holly and Justine before each story only added to my pleasure. My top favorites were Princess Prettypants by Meg Cabot, Bougainvillea by Carrie Ryan, Inoculata by Scott Westerfeld and the hilarious send-up Children of the Revolution by Maureen Johnson. Some of these unicorns were truly ass-kicking monsters!As in all short story collections, some of the stories appealed to me more than others. The winner? The reader, of course.I went into this a firm Team Zombie member as I have an aversion to the sweet, sparkly mythical unicorns that seem to litter little girls dreams, and although overall I probably preferred more of the zombie tales, let me tell you, in most cases the unicorns in this book were far from the sickly sweet, rainbow farting ones that I was expecting. This is a head on battle, alternating creature stories in an all out bid to take top honors. The stories are by well known writers from the fantasy genre, Libba Bray, Naomi Novik and Garth Nix, just to mention a few. Unicorns is a showdown between two mythical creatures as hosted by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black and meant to assist the reader in determining whether they are on Team Zombie or Team Unicorn.
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