Book Reviews
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ARM OF THE SPHINX by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
“There was no honest work for a small crew on such a lowly vessel. Every port they approached shooed them off like a fly from a ... -
SPELLBOUND by Ophelia Silk (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings (from author’s site): child abuse, heteronormativity, (attempted) forced marriage. Jane Paris is everything a young woman should be: polite, charming, and obedient, with a ... -
EMPIRE OF GOLD by S. A. Chakraborty (BOOK REVIEW)
“Nahri found herself pressing her knuckles against her temple, hard enough to hurt. Was this a dream? Or maybe Daevabad had been the dream. The nightmare. ... -
SENLIN ASCENDS by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
‘“I’m going to feel very weak, and you’re going to feel very dumb. But that’s how it always is in the beginning. Learning starts with ... -
SCALES AND SENSIBILITY by Stephanie Burgis (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Death of parents (prior to book, some grieving on page); emotional abuse from family. Sensible, practical Elinor Tregarth really did plan to be the ... -
DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA by Harry Josephine Giles (BOOK REVIEW)
“An at the pairtners, futurs telt i’the wey o thir grip: ower closs or ower lowse or glydan by wi the aese o binary starns. (Ya, ... -
FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN by Tade Thompson (BOOK REVIEW)
“Space is the Brink of Death” “So many ways to die on the Ragtime, so little time.” Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Trilogy established him as one of ... -
THE MILL: A COSMOS by Bess Brenck Kalischer (BOOK REVIEW)
Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos (1922, translated by W. C. Bamberger 2021) “The concave mirrors were so oddly dimmed. The big city pierced ... -
WENDY, DARLING by A C Wise (BOOK REVIEW
Content warnings: A huge amount of medical abuse and gaslighting; depictions of abusive asylums; mentions of suicide; mentions of sexual assault. I don’t tend to consider ... -
THE FALL OF BABEL by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
The Fall of Babel is the stunningly imaginative end to an amazing journey. Josiah Bancroft has crafted for himself and his readers the most exceptional and ...
