Book Reviews
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TEMPORARY AGENCY by Rachel Pollack (BOOK REVIEW)
“When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One.” Rachel Pollack’s Temporary Agency (1994) is set in the same world as her classic ... -
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 ... -
SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by Shelley Parker-Chan – READALONG Week 2
Welcome to the second week of our Readalong! Throughout June, we’re championing non-binary and trans authors in SFF. To celebrate, we’re hosting a readalong of Shelley ... -
THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Alice was a historian, which meant that part of her wanted that connection to people over the centuries, people who would never and could never meet ... -
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 ... -
SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by Shelley Parker-Chan – READALONG Week 1
Welcome to another Fantasy Hive Readalong! Throughout June, we’re championing non-binary and trans authors in SFF. To celebrate, we’re hosting a readalong of Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who ... -
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 ...
