Language Magic as a War-Crime: Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee
If you make a pun about hands of glory and sleight-of-hand, you have my heart FOREVER.
Genre: Queer Protagonists
Must-Have Monday #310
‘Biblically accurate’ angelic horror, sapphic changelings, and queer witches banishing data centres!
Must-Have Monday #309
Steampunk Nigeria, lesbian Beetlejuice, and nonbinary time-travel!
Sunday Soupçons #58
One very soft adventure, one unexpectedly funny romance!
Addictively Dark: The Forest Bleeds by Rachel Kitch
Hi, I would like more from this author IMMEDIATELY!
I Can’t Wait For…The Most Terrible & Wicked Evil Dark Lord Accidentally Invents the Public Library by Misha Maxwell
Do you really need to hear anything more than that title???
Time-Magic, Necromancy, and Minimal Bullets: Soulstealer by Miles Cameron
An Industrial Age where gunpowder is made out of human souls!
Must-Have Monday #308
Filipino shamans, trans cosmic horror, and gay lizard people!
Decadence as Defiance: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo has outdone herself.
A Dark and Bloody Incandescence: On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
I was a third of the way through when I stuck this on my Best of Year list, and having now finished it can I just say: CALLED IT.