Fantasy Bingo 2020-2021 Wrap-Up + (25!) Mini Reviews
Mini-reviews of everything I read for r/Fantasy’s 2020 book bingo!
Category: Sci-Fi Reviews
So Many Ways to be People: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
An epically beautiful sci fi that asks what it means to be a person.
The Most Perfect Goodbye: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Quiet, beautiful perfection.
Some Gems, Some Duds: Upon a Once Time by Todd Sanders (ed.)
In which I have very mixed feelings about a short story collection.
You’ll Never Side With the Superheroes Again: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Her superpower is Powerpoint, and she gets shit DONE.
Also, it is faster to just read the book than to read all my feels about it.
In Music Our Memory: The Chimes by Anna Smaill
A world where music has replaced memories, and two boys who might just save it.
Be the Cog That Breaks the Machine: The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
If you’re looking for a book where there’s a clear Dark Side and no question who the heroes are, this is not the book for you. If you want an adventure, a heist, capers and shenanigans, this is not the book for you. If you’re looking for a comfort read, a quick read, a fun […]
Neurodiversity and Alien Anthropology: Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby
*Deep breath* Okay. I’m okay. Wow. I’ve seen people raving about this book for quite a while now; many trusted sources from all over the place. I even picked it up at some point, but I didn’t get past the first few pages. I must have been in a weird headspace or something, because as […]
Review: The Fifth Gender by G.L. Carriger
This is a wonderful little book – I pre-ordered it on a whim, mainly because I’ve found Carriger’s writing entertaining before and I’m always interested to see takes on alien gender and sexuality. I didn’t expect it to be as sweet and adorable as it in fact was, and despite a few tragic revelations it […]
Review: The Starfighter Invitation by Andrea K. Höst
So…this was an odd one. Höst is one of my favourite authors in all the world; she’s entirely self-published (except for the Book Smugglers editions of her Touchstone trilogy, copies of which I want so bad), so she’s criminally under-known. I’m pretty sure I stumbled across her via a Book Smugglers review; otherwise, I might […]