fall into fire, rise like a phoenix: David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Okungbowa has done something special here.
Category: Fantasy Reviews
This book will put a spell on you: Darkling by Brooklyn Ray
Wow do I have thoughts about this one. Like – let me get it out of the way and say that this is beautifully written (seriously, Ray’s description and pacing and tone and everything seduced me looong before we got to the sex scenes); the characters are fucking awesome; the magic is breathtaking; the worldbuilding […]
Queer Magic and Finding Your Place: Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu
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. This a wonderful graphic novel that I read in a single setting – I couldn’t put it down, and had no desire to! Mooncakes felt […]
A Battle Cry For Our Times: We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
This deserves every bit of the hype it’s received. Despite the promise of f/f, this wasn’t actually a book I was originally especially excited about – I don’t usually have a lot of interest in dystopias, which was what this sounded like, and I guess the blurb struck me as sounding a little too…conventional YA? […]
Storytellers > Wicked Faeries: The Girl with the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis
The first book in this series, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, won me over with its premise – dragons! chocolate! found-families! – so that I pre-ordered it despite it being a Middle Grade book. That was not a mistake; Burgis writes the kind of MG that packs a punch for adults too, and DwaCH is now […]
Too Much Tarnish to Shine: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
I suspect most people who pick this up are going to enjoy it immensely, but although it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year…this one’s just not for me.
Secretive Selkies and Lyrical Prose; Nine Years of Silver by Parker Foye
This beautiful novella is without question going onto both my favourites and best-of-2019 shelves – and Parker Foye has won a permanent place on my list of auto-buy authors. I cannot wait for the rest of the Love Has Claws stories! Nine Years of Silver ought to be too short to fit all the eerie, […]
Dragons Can’t Mitigate This Trainwreck: The Last Tsar’s Dragons by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
I received this E-ARC via Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I was really excited for The Last Tsar’s Dragons – who wouldn’t be, with a premise like it has? But I quickly found myself confused and then disappointed once I started reading. In an attempt to moderate my expectations, I took a […]
Review: The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp
This was a book I picked up and set down again almost at once – right up until Kathy’s glowing review of the sequel over at Pages of the Vaulted Sky. Being a completest, I wasn’t going to read the sequel first, so I tracked down City of Lost Fortunes and sat down to give […]