Witches Failing At Witchery: VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Witches hunting down magical spoons in order to hex the patriarchy…did not live up to its promises.
Category: Fantasy Reviews
This Right Here Is Why I Don’t Read Popular Books: The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
Thanks, I hate it.
Unbury This and Stick It To The Top of Your TBR: The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hasan
A young witch and her unlikely allies go up against a monster in this YA with a surprising amount of depth!
An Utter Delight From Start to Finish: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
An endearingly anti-social professor of faerie studies faces off against ice elves and never gets in over her head, not even once!
(She does catch Feelings, and is Not Impressed with them!)
Sunday Souçons #18
A noir F/F and a fantasy inspired by surrealist paintings!
Epic Fail: The Rise of the Alliance series by Sherwood Smith
In which Sia rants. A lot.
October DNFs
Four books that crashed and burned for me this month – all of them ARCs.
Come For the Perfume, Stay For the Murder: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly
How can you not want to read about a nonbinary serial-killing perfumer???
Gender Euphoria and Wrathful Witchery: The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke
The best teen witches in print right now get even queerer and fiercer and more magical.
Wrings Your Heart Out and Leaves It Glowing: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Practice by Sienna Tristen
An optimistic fantasy that asks, how do we love the world when it stops being easy?