I enjoyed this anthology.. I don't recall much about it and I'm not sure why I didn't review here sooner but I remember that I enjoyed it.

I had a little fun while reading this one. I have my own deck of tarot cards, and so I pulled all the major arcana out to correspond with each short story or poem, and then I would shuffle them and pull a card to dictate which work I read next. It made it kind of interesting and fun to explore the text in a different way than from cover to cover.

However, I found a lot of the stories themselves were a bit repetitive or just blended into one another. Some of the poems were beautiful and really impactful in their language.

Ultimately, this was a fun read, with a unique and intriguing premise.... but it didn't deliver as well as it could have.

A nice anthology of works. Not really my cup of tea - but can be a good addition for some in their tarot journey to connect with something (major arcana wise).

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book. What interesting insights into the different tarot cards! I enjoyed this one.

Thanks to Netgalley and Rhonda Parrish for providing me with a copy of this ARC.

I loved this book. It's a very interesting approach to tarot cards. Each card of Major Arcane is described with some tale or poetry. It was a nice read. I love some tales and some of them are very interesting. I will love to see more of them. But I've read ones that are a bit boring or hard to read.
But I still love the idea of this book and I've enjoyed reading it.

A Rhonda Parrish collection usually has a good lead-in story, and this book did not disappoint. “Finders and Keepers, Its and Not-Its” by J.G. Formato led the pack, an interesting tale on one path one might take when the world falls in on you. While I did not find that all the stories reached this level, there are enough tales that were engaging.

I was not familiar with the theme that was chosen, so I read the book as a collection of short stories. My favorites included “My Brother’s Keeper” by Beth Cato, a down home story involving magic and family. Sara Dobie Bauer’s “Anime Gamelle” had an ending I never would have guessed but was satisfying. The story I will remember for a while? “The Hermit” by Joseph Halden, a story of one woman struggling to find her way (and her niche) in a world that would rather she didn’t.

Most of the stories in the “Arcana” collection are short, so even if a story doesn’t fit your personal tastes, the next one is right around the corner. Worth checking out. Three-and-a-half stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Poise and Pen for a complimentary electronic copy of this book.

This is not your typical anthology. Each short story or poem is connected to one of the cards in the Major Arcana of Tarot. It is like drawing a card from your deck and getting a story that embodies everything that card represents. Each story begins by not only listing the author and title, but also the tarot card that the story is based on. You don't have to know anything about tarot to understand this book, but if you do then you get little mini spoilers of how the story might go. Like with all anthologies some stories are better than others, but I look forward to reading and re-reading this book.

An anthology of the tarot's Major Arcana, the cards playing out in real life. I fully enjoyed the oddballs, the weird surroundings, the strange creatures and the well crafted writing in most of the chapters. A few stories were just too long and didn't hold my attention.
Overall a clever way to give meaning to the cards without mentioning them, apart from a small font at the start of each new one. Tarot readers will know which is which.
Story lovers might enjoy this book just as much.

Thank you Netgalley and Poise and Pen Publishing for the ARC.

"Arcana" is full of great stories and poems each one inspired by tarot card.
It was great idea to write something so mysterious and magical. Those tales includes whatever you want them to, because they don't tell you what to think. Often ending was open, so you can imagine what will happen next. I would say that you didn't read the story (or poem) but instead it reads you.
I enjoyed every chapter of this book, though some less than others. But my absolutely favourite was "Palimpsest" by Kevin Civile - it was inspired by Magician card.
I recommend that book to everyone, I think that the stories are so Diverse that everyone can find something for himself. But people who are interested in tarot, who likes mysterious, soul-revealing vibes are going to love this book the most.