2024 Unmissable Stats!
How accurate, or INaccurate, was my Unmissable list this year?
Category: Let’s Dig In: Thoughts, Analysis, Essays
Adventures in Discomfort: A Rec List of Disability in Fantasy
A rec list of Fantasy featuring disabled protagonists – with a little mini-essay of my own thoughts on the topic.
Cover Reveal & A Tarot Reading: The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards!
The most beautiful cover I have ever seen; a thesis on its symbolism; and a tarot reading!
The Crescent Classics 101 & the Book That Started It All
A quick rundown on what the Crescent Classics are, and my spotlight on the very first one.
What Fibromyalgia Taught Me About Fantasy: Or, Dragons are Real, Actually
The dragons are only in my head.
But they’re not, if they’re in yours too.
Reading it Once, Reviewing it Thrice: A Ferry of Bones & Gold by Hailey Turner
Look, if you want good Urban Fantasy, just go read The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards. You’ll save yourself a lot of pain.
10 Heroines Who Choose to Challenge
In honour of International Women’s Day, 10 incredible heroines!
I Need This to Exist: #OwnVoices Reflection on Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Magic shapes Yadriel’s world. Stories shape ours.
Take My Breath Away: Analysing (Some of the) Beautiful Covers We’ve Been Blessed With Lately!
We have had some ridiculously gorgeous cover reveals in the last little while – so pretty I just had to showcase them! It doesn’t hurt that these are all from my most-anticipated list, as well! Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I realised that A Dark and Hollow Star‘s cover reminded me […]
Why Do I Want My Fantasy to be Queer?
If you pitch me two similar-sounding books, but one is queer? Then that’s the one I’m picking. And I can’t figure out why. Of course, it’s a given that representation matters in fiction – I’m not here to debate that; as far as I’m concerned, it’s a fact, not an opinion. This post isn’t about […]