Fantasy
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THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION / THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY by Margaret Killjoy (BOOK REVIEWS)
“Collective safety, sometimes, trumps personal safety. Friends who aren’t willing to fight alongside one another aren’t friends.” “No real plans, only chaos. This is how we’re ... -
ODDER STILL by DN Bryn (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: (from the author, edited for length, but click here for the full list) alcoholism and drunkenness; animaldeath, often violent, including cats and dogs; general ... -
SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES by Aldrea Alien (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: domestic/family abuse and neglect (not graphic, consistent with Cinderella tropes); fantasy racism; fantasy slavery; multiple mentions of violent punishment/beatings/whippings; imprisonment; discussion of gender dysphoria ... -
HEART OF STONE by Johannes T Evans (BOOK REVIEW)
The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vampire, takes on a new personal secretary: young Theophilus Essex. The ... -
MELIORA by Talli L. Morgan (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Anxiety/panic attacks; discussion of terminal/chronic illness; discussion of poverty, both systemic and individual, and classism; restriction of access to healthcare. Winter Fae takes a ... -
ORDINARY MONSTERS by J. M. Miro (BOOK REVIEW)
“What else is loss? What is death? Who doesn’t believe in things they can’t explain? God and the angels, gravity and electricity, death and the mystery ... -
KINSHIP AND KINDNESS by Kara Jorgensen (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: (from the author) sexual content, violence, ableism (including internalized), foreshortened future/PTSD, epileptic seizures, remembered child abuse, remembered death of a lover. I’d also add ... -
THE HUNGER OF THE GODS by John Gwynne (BOOK REVIEW)
This review will contain spoilers for The Shadow of the Gods. “To kill a god, we need a god.” The Bloodsworn saga continues in The Hunger ... -
WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by Nana Nkweti (BOOK REVIEW)
“A Mami Wata’s essence is moonlight and desire melded to one. Nala knows this in her marrow, in her fins. Lasirèn, Yemanja, Oxum, Erzulie, Jine-Faro, Santa ... -
SOMEONE IN TIME edited by Jonathan Strahan (BOOK REVIEW)
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance is an anthology of short stories by various authors including Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, ...