I found myself hoping that the peacock would eventually discover what he'd done and ditch him. What the crow did was neither sweet nor okay. The other story I really disliked was the one about the peacock and the crow. The hare only used it to get a kiss (there is no sex in this volume, just occasional kisses), but it still grossed me out. The very first story was one of those: a hare slipped his secret crush, a more academically gifted Siamese cat, a love potion designed to make him do whatever the hare wanted him to do, fall asleep, and then wake up with no memory of what happened. However, things got a little too intense for me during the story about the bats (food regurgitation that morphs into the beginnings of sexual exploration) and the story about the wolf and the goat (the line between "I want you" and "I want to eat you for lunch" is distressingly thin). I enjoyed this in the story about the deer and the lizard - it took place in winter and featured a snuggling arrangement between the coldblooded lizard and his warmblooded roommate. In some stories, however, the characters' animal characteristics played a bigger role. Usually it was little things: the unicorn could tell whether someone was a virgin or not, and the peacock fanned out his magnificent feathers whenever he went out courting. The characters weren't just humans who looked like animals - they all retained some of their animal characteristics, which often played a part in the volume's stories. Although I would have liked it to go on just a bit longer, long enough to confirm that the unicorn had definitely finally found someone he could trust. The story about the unicorn and the griffon was nice too - not necessarily sweet, but certainly warm. I count the story involving the bear and human (young wizard?) and the story about the deer and lizard in that category. It's by the creator of The Girl From the Other Side, a series I've enjoyed so far (I've read the first four volumes), the furries on the cover looked appealing, and I'd heard it was sweet. If I had to briefly describe this volume, I'd say it's slice-of-life m/m Hogwarts by way of Zootopia. Main characters from some stories occasionally have cameo appearances in other stories. This is composed of eight short stories that take place in the same fantasy world.
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