Chillingly Awesome: The Gathering by C.J. Tudor
A 50yo detective is called out to rural Alaska to investigate what looks like a vampyre murder – and potentially sign off on a Cull.
Category: Spec-Fic Reviews
Sunday Soupçons #28
A maybe-fantastical historical novel in Tsarist Russia, and a beautiful but horrifying queer awakening in a magical dystopia.
Sunday Soupçons #22
Chinese bandits taking on the Empire; a world where eating is taboo and sex is casual; and midwives with otherworldly powers!
July DNFs
A lot of objectively great books that just didn’t work for me. Not their fault!
Marvellously Merciless: Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
In which a scientist is absolutely not drift compatible with a wolf (but definitely thinks she is).
Great Premise, Meh Story: Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett
In another timeline, Berlin is the world’s first Gay State.
Unfortunately, the book about it isn’t nearly as interesting as it should be.