A review by colinmeldrum
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 13 by Jonathan Strahan

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

Favorites:
The Woman Who Destroyed Us (Huang) 
When We Were Starless (Heller)
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth (Gregory)
You Pretend Like You Never Met Me (Headley)
Meat and Salt and Sparks (Larson)

Individual ratings:
Mother Tongues, by S. Qiouyi Lu *****
Olivia's Table, by Alyssa Wong ****
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington, by P. Djèlí Clark *****
Yard Dog, by Tade Thompson ****
The Woman Who Destroyed Us, by S. L. Huang *****
The Blue Fairy's Manifesto, by Annalee Newitz ***
The Starship and the Temple Cat, by Yoon Ha Lee ***
A Brief and Fearful Star, by Carmen Maria Machado ****
Field Biology of the Wee Fairies, by Naomi Kritzer ****
Intervention, by Kelly Robson ****
The Bookcase Expedition, by Jeffrey Ford *****
A Witch's Guide to Escape, by Alix E. Harrow ****
The Staff in the Stone, by Garth Nix ****
Okay, Glory, by Elizabeth Bear ****
Widdam, by Vandana Singh *****
Dreadful Young Ladies, by Kelly Barnhill ***
The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander **
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society, by T. Kingfisher **
When We Were Starless, by Simone Heller *****
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, by Zen Cho ****
Blessings, by Naomi Novik ***
Meat and Salt and Sparks, by Rich Larson *****
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth, by Daryl Gregory *****
Golgotha, by Dave Hutchinson **
Flint and Mirror, by John Crowley **
An Agent of Utopia, by Andy Duncan **
You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You, by short story by Maria Dahvana Headley *****
Quality Time, by Ken Liu ****
The Storyteller's Replacement, by N. K. Jemisin ****
Firelight (Earthsea Cycle), by Ursula K. Le Guin ****