Fantasy
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A RESTLESS TRUTH by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)
A Restless Truth is Freya Marske’s much anticipated sequel to her queer historical fantasy, A Marvellous Light. The story picks up not long after the events of ... -
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)
A Marvellous Light is Australian author Freya Marske’s debut novel of Edwardian magicians. It’s a beautiful story of self-discovery, featuring sumptuous prose, that I burned through in ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: Shadows of Self (BOOK REVIEW)
Note: this review will contain mild Mistborn spoilers. “These days, Elendel just didn’t need as many carriage drivers as it did automobile repairmen. You had ... -
AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW by Zoulfa Katouh (BOOK REVIEW)
“For now, this flag is our shield against the cold winters, the bombs falling from the sky, and the bullets that tear into our bodies. In ... -
THE WITNESSES ARE GONE by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everything we search for, every holy grail, is something we cannot afford to find.” After bringing Joel Lane’s debut novel From Blue To Black (2000), short ... -
SIGNAL TO NOISE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (BOOK REVIEW)
Originally published in 2015 and republished this year, Moreno-Garcia’s debut novel, Signal to Noise hearkens of old, new, broken, and mended love, of what it means ... -
A DOWRY OF BLOOD by S. T. Gibson (BOOK REVIEW)
“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass nor unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a ... -
LEECH by Hiron Ennes (BOOK REVIEW)
“Many patients, in times of stress, will recount dreams haunted by images of their bodies falling apart. Sometimes they tell me stories of paralysis, or rotten ... -
THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE by Roshani Chokshi (BOOK REVIEW)
“All Marriages possess their own tongue. It is a lexicon discovered in that space between clipped sentences. Its poetry can be heard in the rustle of ... -
A GAMBLE OF GODS by Mitriel Faywood (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gamble of Gods, Mitriel Faywood’s speculative fiction debut, exuberantly merges sci-fi and fantasy millieux in a multi-world story following three different first-person point of view ...
