This is a short, gentle collection of stories featuring characters from other books in the Mangoverse. I've only read one of the novels of that series, and that was a slight disadvantage, I think - although each story had a note saying which book the characters had come from, I was clearly missing background context. That wasn't a big deal for most of the stories, but "Every Us" in particular made me feel as if I needed more information to really appreciate it.

That being said, what I most like about this collection is how kind it is. The stories tend to be stuffed full with goodhearted people doing their best to think of others and treat them well, which results in this really optimistic, friendly tone. That doesn't mean a lack of conflict - and my favourite story of the bunch, "No Whining", illustrates this when a restaurant owner is torn between finding a more reliable wine seller when doing so means letting go of a helpful young delivery driver - but it does mean that resolutions to such conflict tend more towards the conversational.