I honestly don’t remember the last time I had so few DNFs! Just EIGHT?! I mean, I was ill for a good chunk of August…maybe that was it!

Eclipse & the Wolf by Akwaeke Emezi
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Black bisexual MCs
PoV: First-person, past-tense; third-person, past-tense; multiple PoVs
Published on: 2nd February 2027
ISBN: 0063477432
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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

In this blockbuster epic pulsing with powerful magic and political tension, follow Eclipse and Wolf as they race to save a world on the verge of collapse.

Welcome to St Paradise: where clans' elites trade in secrets, sex and goods - a glittering world dripping with wealth and blood, old and new.

Eclipse Orinabe has not forgotten the blood. One of the few survivors of the Orinabe clan massacre, she has been raised to be a bigger terror than the one she lived through, a weapon of destruction disguised as a beautiful princess.

Yearning to escape, Eclipse sneaks out to a club on neutral territory, dangerous as running on a knife's edge. When she crosses paths with Wolf - Heir to the Goldshot clan - ancient blood magic humming in their veins forms a bond that will transform the future of St. Paradise forever.

I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I can’t believe I’m DNFing an Emezi novel, but…I’m DNFing an Emezi novel.

The prose is 80% gorgeous, but that other 20% is deeply clunky. There is so much info-dumping in the beginning – at first, it was woven into the flow of the story well enough that I didn’t mind, but it kept getting worse and worse. And then the repetition started – the fact that Wolf was baptised in rabbit blood upon becoming Heir was mentioned three times in his first POV chapter. The first chapter following Noah repeats the same few facts over and over and over, sometimes multiple times on the same page. I don’t need to be told things this many times, it’s just annoying.

Quotes to showcase what I mean about clunky prose taken from my early reading copy, so bear in mind these could all be edited or even removed from the final, published edition of the book.

The Butcher was impenetrable, resurrected, with a necklace of shiny scar tissue around her throat that she refused to smooth away. Sometimes I’d look over at it and think about how that wound on the boat was the last time I ever saw anything on my aunt smile.

Incredible image, but ‘anything on my aunt’? Why not ‘any part of my aunt’?

Anything would be better than what we liked to do to alive Etim who fell into our hands

‘alive Etim’? Etim are one of the clans, so we’re talking about people. Why not just say ‘what we liked to do to Etim’? Also, by specifying ‘alive’ you’re implying that dead Etim fall into your hands sometimes? Which seems very weird and unlikely???

I was hers–her sword, her sickled blade

As far as I can tell after searching through Duck Duck Go results, ‘sickled’ means ‘to be provided with a sickle blade’, which I don’t think makes sense here. From context, I think ‘sickled blade’ is here meant to mean sickle-SHAPED blade? But that’s apparently not what the word means.

but that’s just a word we use to translate ourselves to the other clans

‘translate ourselves’? (From context, the meaning here is something like, ‘but that’s just how we explain/describe ourselves to the other clans’.)

We have no qualms with violence, obviously, but it’s as much a ritual as anything else, as much a worship and sacrifice, as much a service and sermon.

‘a worship’? I don’t think ‘worship’ is the kind of noun that can be used this way?

Another piece of the vision had been more of a premonition shaped into a simple sentence.

What do you mean, ‘another piece of the vision had been more of a premonition’? That’s like saying ‘another piece of the blue was also blue’. ??? Also from context, I genuinely don’t know if the ‘simple sentence’ was a literal sentence the seer saw in words, or if they ‘heard’ it spoken, or if it was wordless knowledge that could be summed up in a sentence.

The full vision was a tapestried horizon

This sounds wonderful, but I have no idea what it means. What am I supposed to picture?

I could keep going. HOWEVER. I don’t remember ever noticing anything like this in any of Emezi’s other books. And I got my early reading copy VERY early – give or take six months before release day. Put those two facts together, and I wonder if the version I read just…hasn’t gone through final edits yet? It seems unlikely that Emezi would abruptly start having sentences like this when they never have before.

And the other 80% of the prose is every bit as stunning as Emezi’s prose had hitherto always been. Which I think makes it even more likely that what I read wasn’t properly finished yet – they clearly CAN still write beautifully. If the version I read is going to be polished one more time before publication, then probably that final version will have all the clunkiness I quoted polished out of it.

But there is also the problem of the failure of reasoning of some of these characters. As in, what they were thinking and doing made no sense at all.

Case in point: Silver Orinabe has demanded all the clans reveal who their Heirs are. The twin leaders of clan Solarin are deeply reluctant to do so, but…they never even consider lying? We already know the leader of another clan is taking that clan’s Heir and a second person, with the goal of keeping everyone else guessing as to which of the two is the actual Heir. Why doesn’t Solarin do something similar? Or just straight-up lie and say your Heir is someone it’s not? Nope, they ‘have’ to tell Silver the truth. Why??? How will Silver know you’ve lied? The Solarins are psychics but Silver isn’t. ???

Part of the reason the Solarin leaders are so eager to ally with Silver is a prophecy-vision they’ve had. See, Orinabe men get tattooed with a seven-headed lizard – the Orinabe are matriarchal, the tattoo denotes possession but also protection. The Solarins have had a vision of Noah with this tattoo. And they interpret it as…meaning the clans will ally.

What? No, it means Noah is going to belong to the Orinabe at some point. It means he’ll leave clan Solarin and join clan Orinabe. Wtf? We already know this, it was established in chapter one. I don’t think it’s likely that the Solarins were this wrong about what the tattoo means when they’re all super-spies (because psychics). So what on earth is this reasoning? How did you reach that conclusion? It completely contradicts the evidence!

There are more moments like that. Nobody touches Solarins, because everyone knows if you do they can read your mind. Within the clan, NOBODY touches Noah, because if you do his very powerful telepathy might destroy you. But…a newbie to the clan is nervous and grabs his arm. ??? If she’s a newbie, then she must have been adopted in – which means she has grown up with the rest of the city’s Do Not Touch Solarins taboo/fear. There’s even a law forbidding Solarins from touching others because of this. So even if she’s forgotten that even other Solarins shouldn’t touch Noah, why would she reach for his arm? That doesn’t make sense. She’s spent her whole life fearing the touch of Solarins. If she’s new enough to forget clan rules, how can she have forgotten the rules she grew up with?

These seem like things that are a lot less likely to be whisked away this close to publication. I could obviously be wrong.

Ultimately, I can only judge the book that’s in front of me. The version of it I’ve been given, I am just not enjoying, and don’t have any reason to want to keep reading. I have no problem with big, complicated secondary-world settings, I can keep track of books’ worth of lore, but I don’t want it constantly info-dumped on me. I want characters whose reasoning I can follow. The budding romance bores me; it’s all sexual chemistry with no emotional basis – not an inherently bad thing, but not one I’m interested in.

After thinking about it, I realised that Eclipse and the Wolf reminds me a lot of Emezi’s previous book, Son of the Morning – which I really didn’t enjoy. They have the same kind of flavour or vibe, even though Eclipse and the Wolf is much more violent, much darker; they’re both running on Paranormal Romance logic, if anyone gets what I mean by that. If you enjoyed the one, I suspect you’ll enjoy the other too (assuming you’re fine with the violence/lack of it).

But this is not for me, I think.

The Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth
Genres: Adult, Fantasy
PoV: Third-person, past-tense
ISBN: 1101659939
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In the Celtic land of Eileanan, witches and magic have been outlawed, and those caught for practicing witchcraft are put to death! It is a land ruled by an evil Queen, where sea-dwelling Fairgean stir, and children vanish in the night. But in a valley deep in the mountains, young Isabeau grows to womanhood under the guidance of an elderly witch, and must set out on a quest, carrying the last hopes of the persecuted witches.

Thanks, I hate it.

I tried to read this before, years ago, and was hoping… I don’t know, that my tastes had changed. Nope! I still want to toss it out a window.

Not because it’s Problematic or anything – I’ve never gotten far enough to tell (bar the whole ‘fire is a masculine element, therefore difficult for women to use’ nonsense, which is frustrating but kind of a given in a book this old). What it is instead is FUCKING STUPID.

Witches, you see, are super illegal and the ones that exist are in hiding. Like Isabeau and her guardian Meghan. One mark of a witch is that they never cut their hair. EVER. This is not the stupid thing; it is very possible to never cut your hair and to manage that in a reasonable manner. Not Mehan and Isabeau, though: they’re morons. They live very, very far away from other humans, in proper forest. And do they keep their hair in careful braids? Or under some kind of hair-wrap? NO THEY DO NOT. They wear their hair fucking loose.

Isabeau is constantly in the forest proper, running with deer and wild ponies, climbing up and down trees. It’s actually necessary to climb a tree to get inside the place where she lives. And she is doing all of that…with hair down to her ankles, which is LOOSE. Not tied back! Not tucked away! Not even in a plait! LOOSE.

I’m sorry, that is straight-up stupid. Wtf is wrong with you. This would be completely unmanageable. You would be getting caught in things a gazillion times a day. You would have things nesting in it. You would spend an enormous chunk of every day cleaning it. And is that the case here? No. Do either Isabeau or Meghan ever complain about what an insane amount of work hair like this is? No. Do witches have any protocols or customs or rituals regarding hair-care and -washing? No.

My hair goes midway down my back. If it’s not tied back, it gets EVERYWHERE. My mouth, my eyes, my food, my clothes, etc. So it’s utterly bonkers to me that I’m supposed to buy that witches have their hair EVEN LONGER and somehow can still function. I call bs. And it’s such a STUPID thing, it’s so clearly just for the ~aesthetic of having witches have mysterious beautiful long hair. BAD WRITING.

So that kept making me twitch. But also, the writing on a line level is just bad. CONSTANT info-dumps, PAGES of exposition-via-dialogue, everything heavy-handed and clunky as hells. It bored me to tears. But it didn’t even make for a good bedtime book, because it’s so bad it pisses me off, and that is not conducive to falling asleep.

I’ve enjoyed other books by Forsyth in the past, but this one? DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Lipsnitch Snilly by Steven T. Gibbon
Genres: Adult, Fantasy
Representation: Neurodivergent MC
PoV: Third-person, past-tense; multiple PoVs
Published on: 1st September 2026
ISBN: 9798993367644
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Lipsnitch Snilly chronicles the misadventures of an exiled, troublemaking goat-person and his well-meaning partner in crime, Gary the crow, as they journey to a fictional place called Ohio. Our hero upsets the local law enforcement immediately, makes a bunch of powerful enemies mostly by accident, starts a fire in a cornfield, gets stuck in a bathtub, confronts a deadly monster and invariably finds himself on the gallows.

I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

This is utterly bonkers, in a way that didn’t quite work for me but that I am nonetheless somewhat impressed by. I’d be very willing to try out other books from this author, as long as they’re not related to this setting/these characters. This one, I DNFed at my usual cut-off point, 20%.

This is a world where humans exist somewhere far away, but goglins – bipedal goat-people – are the focus, particularly the eponymous Lipsnitch Snilly, who is a very bad mortician, stupidly macho, and way cockier than he has any right to be. (He might also have ADHD and/or dyslexia; the author described him as neurodivergent in an email to me, and those were the vibes I was picking up.) I can see some readers finding him very funny, but alas, I just found him deeply annoying. I don’t have much patience for wilfully stupid characters, and on top of that Lipsnitch is blandly and carelessly awful to everybody in a way that is too common to be interesting. You know the coworker who thinks he’s a genius and thus looks down on everyone, but is a complete moron? That’s this guy.

Lipsnitch wants to be the world’s greatest ‘goatmancer’, but has no interest in putting the work in. He does have some kind of immense magical power, but at the beginning of the book he’s unaware of it, and when the readers finds out about it, it becomes clear that he has no control over it. (But is happy to take its discovery as proof that he is in fact awesome.) His primary objective in life is to look Cool^TM, complete with sunglasses and, if he can somehow acquire one, a motorbike made of skulls. To call him shallow is honestly underselling it.

Besides a terrible protagonist, I found the story itself really choppy. Characters other than Lipsnitch just Do Things almost at random, that make no sense: one character comes after Lipsnitch when he’s exiled, stays by him for about a day while he’s unconscious, then just…goes home, having done absolutely nothing. ??? We’re learning a lot of things after the fact, being told them instead of shown in a way I found really clunky. There’s an inexplicable talking bird who feels drawn to protect Lipsnitch Just Because. (In fairness, I’m sure that would be explained eventually, but it was clearly not going to be explained soon and it just felt so random.) None of it felt coherent to me, and it’s the wrong flavour of whimsical/ridiculous to bring me joy.

That Gibbon’s mind could come up with this bonkers premise does, like I said, make me interested in trying something else he writes, but this character/verse is not for me.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Genres: Fantasy, MG
PoV: Third-person, past-tense; multiple PoVs
Published on: 25th August 2026
ISBN: 1616205679
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Every year the people of the protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise swamp monster and a perfectly tiny dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling an ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. But as Luna's 13th birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge, with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth's surface. And the woman with the tiger's heart is on the prowl.

I keep trying this book, and I keep tapping out. This was my fourth attempt, I think, and I got much further than before, all the way to 41%. But I am bored and annoyed and just not getting what everyone else gets out of this one.

Why are we lying to the tiny dragon. Why is the witch’s power draining away now that she has Luna. What do you mean, Luna regularly blacks out and just never mentions it. Luna is going to be right back where we started the minute the binding pops. I see the outlines of the Important Themes Barnhill is working with, and they are all good and powerful ones, but not very interesting to me specifically. And I really don’t like where I think the whole thing with Luna’s biological mother is going.

It’s not objectively bad, but it’s not for me. (I think it might have been, if I’d read it when I was much younger! But alas, adult!me doesn’t care for it.)

The Chosen One Con (Lost in the Aether, #1) by Trudie Skies
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Queer MCs
PoV: First-person, past-tense; dual PoVs
Published on: 1st September 2026
ISBN: 1066762600
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Magic is a rich man's game.

Archons control magic in the great city of Aefenhold. Brand-name spells, addictive potions, and celebrity TV keep the poor entertained while they toil in the factories manufacturing magic. That should have been the fate of Max and his childhood friend Lyle, until a violent workers’ strike tears their lives apart, condemning Lyle to the aetherstone mines and leaving Max orphaned with no choice but to sell his labour to a brothel.

Life under the Archon's rule has given Max a taste for magical narcotics, and left Lyle with aether dust in his lungs and a deep resentment for magic. So when Aefenhold's rulers announce a televised contest to find the chosen one—a prophesized distraction to unite the city against its detractors—both Max and Lyle see an opportunity to con their way into the contest.

Where Max seeks to steal magic for his freedom, Lyle views magic as a tool of oppression to be destroyed. Their old friendship will be tested as they're forced to become adversaries against famous rival mages in a series of magical trials. Whoever becomes the chosen one will change the shape of magic forever.

But magic is a rich man's game, and should Max or Lyle be discovered as frauds, their deaths will be televised next.

The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. This is an adult book containing strong language and mature themes that some readers may find disturbing. For a full list of content warnings, visit Trudie Skies's website.

I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Not objectively terrible, but the prose is very plain, and – okay I do think a lot of the dialogue is objectively pretty bad, actually. Obviously speech patterns and vocabulary are not the same in every setting, or every time period within that setting, but…there are plenty of authors who can make those unfamiliar-to-me speech patterns feel natural; Skies does not seem to be one, at least not in this instance. (I still really want to try their Cruel Gods series; hopefully I’ll enjoy that one more.)

Other than the dialogue, everything is fine but nothing struck me as all that special. Possibly my expectations were set too high? This setting is in its industrialisation stage, and magic is just…a combination fuel and edible ingredient. Put it in food when it’s powdered, stick it in a wand to cast a spell. That was way more mundane than I was expecting it to be; it doesn’t feel magical, there’s no wonder. And possibly that’s very deliberate – magic made mundane by the evils of greedy industrialisation, the wonder all stripped out of it, just another poison for the factory-workers who process it. I can see that being a very purposeful writing choice! But it’s not one I enjoyed, and it wasn’t what I was looking for.

And possibly I’m just in the wrong headspace? But I found the villains and villainy heavy-handed – the industrial pollution, murdering striking factory workers, the manipulative, lying journalists. It all felt very obvious, very blunt.

The combo of setting and characters is going to make this someone’s four-star read for sure. It’s not for me, but mostly because I wanted something different, which isn’t at all the book’s fault!

The Calamities by Chuck Wendig
Genres: Adult, Horror
PoV: Third-person, past-tense
ISBN: 9798217091829
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The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy, which is one of cruelty, domination, and exploitation... and something even darker.

Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends—half-human, half-demon, and possessed of dark magic born from buying human souls—and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families.

But when Mourning’s estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that he return to the fold, Mourning has to make a decision whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family, or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world.

Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their fiendish nature... but together, they might find a path out of the shadows.

Honestly not sure why I picked this up to begin with – I think I’ve been vaguely wanting to try Wendig for years, but I never quite click with his books. As was the case here; just not to my taste. The horror feels so cheap and crude and obvious, everything is very dirty realism, very nihilistic. Body horror and demons and being addicted to souls as if to heroin. I rolled my eyes so hard I strained something at Mourning’s whole Thing with Sophie, and of course the twins are giving incest-vibes, because obviously. Boring.

She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy, Horror
Representation: F/F
PoV: Third-person, present-tense
ISBN: 9798217046539
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These violent delights have violent ends.

After surviving a shadowed childhood, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mother’s alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet feels like a dream—until the blood-soaked wraith that caused her mother’s death resurfaces after years of quiet. With nothing to go on but cryptic symbols in an old college notebook, Mallory hopes the reason behind her mother’s haunting lies somewhere on campus, and resolves to find answers before she meets the same fate.

She’s surprised to make an unexpected ally in Ezra Pierce, the magnetic fourth year directing the play, and takes solace in their undeniable chemistry. But Ezra is a master secret-keeper, and it’s clear he knows more than he’s letting on about Saskia Garin, Mallory’s elusive understudy whose past eerily mirrors her own.

When an ancient, bloodthirsty evil calls to collect on a bargain that dates back to the New England vampire panic, Mallory, Ezra, and Saskia will have to untangle the tragic ways in which their histories are linked—and face the devastating consequences of their own star-crossed love story.

I could barely keep my eyes open. Info-dumpy, incredibly boring, and the present-tense does it no favours. Lots of straight-up-stupid going on just in the opening chapters. I had high hopes for this one, but it seems they will not be met!

Thoughts Be Bloody by Auden Patrick
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Bi/pan trans MC, M/M
PoV: First-person, past-tense
Published on: 15th September 2026
ISBN: 0756420482
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A struggling student, a resident golden boy, and the curse that will bring them this queer, trans retelling is Hamlet as you’ve never read it before

Exploring classism, identity, and the true meaning of revolution, this dark academia novel is perfect for fans of R. F. Kuang’s Babel

The summer before his sophomore year, Horatio Bithersea walks into the university library to find Carson Hamlett, resident golden boy and master magician, cradling his father’s dead body. Life at Elsinore, one of the most prestigious universities in the secretive magical world, simply goes on when the professor’s death is ruled an accident—despite the mysterious circumstances and the bloody scene.

 A year later, Horatio is keeping his head down, attempting to graduate without his out-of-control magic harming his classmates. That changes when the ghost of Hamlett’s father appears and places a curse on Horatio and avenge his death by destroying Elsinore and its heart, lest the ghost robs them of their minds, memories, and their very souls.

Elsinore has given Horatio everything—knowledge of his magical ability, an escape from his abusive family, and freedom to pursue his life as a transgender man—and now he’s to be its doom. As the two uncover more of Elsinore’s secrets, Horatio finds himself becoming more and more ensnared in Hamlett’s dark but charismatic web. 

The question is not if Horatio will manage to destroy Elsinore. The question is if Hamlett will destroy him first. This twisty, queer, dark academia is a brand-new take on the questions that haunt Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

One of my most-anticipated books of the year, and I cannot stand it. After months of slogging through this, I made it to 47% and just could not take it any more.

The beginning is very promising: Horatio is desperate to keep his place in magic school as the only not-born-to-a-wizard-family magician anyone’s ever heard of. Problem is, his magic is dangerously haywire. He definitely does not need to be getting dragged into Hamlett’s paranoid nonsense, but obviously that’s exactly what happens.

A friend (who also had an early reading copy) asked me what I thought of Hamlett: I said I thought he needed therapy and probably bipolar meds. (Speaking as the child of one person with BPD and married to a BPD spouse.) Hamlett is a mess, and not an interesting mess, just a batshit one; Horatio’s yearning is delicious, but it was also inexplicable, because I couldn’t comprehend why he was yearning after this shallow wastepaper-basket of a man. Hamlett’s convictions about his father’s death (including who’s responsible) make no sense whatsoever, and the fact that Horatio’s narration acknowledges that does not mitigate it or make it better. I have no idea why Horatio went along with all of it, and I have no idea why Hamlett himself thought any of it. It seemed like he was jumping to impossible conclusions for the sake of plot, not as a result of, you know, reasonable reasoning.

Which was the start of a trend, really, because this author handwaves all sorts of things. The book is set at an academy (university?) of magic, but no one knows how magic works. Never mind that every year this place manages to successfully teach it to hundreds of students…? Don’t worry about it. Definitely don’t question it. Horatio figures out what’s wrong with his magic and becomes, in a WEEK, Doctor Strange levels of powerful. How??? Don’t ask, just enjoy all the badass visuals we get now!

I’m not someone who demands hard magic systems – I actually dislike them, but I don’t like magic as an endless series of deus ex machinas, either. There was no – no sense of work behind the magic here, we didn’t see Horatio striving, learning. Just all of a sudden a switch is flipped and he can do anything now, with minimal effort. When are storytellers going to learn that that’s just boring? It strips all the tension away. Reality-warping gods are not interesting characters! There are big dramatic scenes that are clearly supposed to have me on the edge of my seat, and instead I was falling asleep because who cares now? Obviously Horatio will figure it out, will display some brand new brain-breakingly impossible magic to save the day – and indeed he does. Multiple times. Why would I stick around for that???

So much potential! But Thoughts Be Bloody doesn’t live up to it. A pretentiously shallow love interest, a magic school with no magic learning happening, a murder investigation/revenge quest that makes no sense, a protagonist who goes from sympathetically mortal to superpowered godling in the space of a few sentences… I wanted this to be so incredibly excellent, but it just isn’t.

Perhaps September will see even fewer DNFs! I can dream.

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