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.
Tag: ARC reviews
An Infinitely Mindblowing Finale: The Infinite by Ada Hoffman
I really did not know how Hoffman could possibly wrap everything up in just one more book.
But she did – and blew me away.
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!)
Teixcalaan By Way of Cleopatra: The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
Queer sci-fi Cleopatra.
What more do you need to hear???
October DNFs
Four books that crashed and burned for me this month – all of them ARCs.
Run, Don’t Walk: Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares
What do you do when it’s a choice between someone you love and the lives of billions?
You grab your person and you run.
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?
Sunday Souçons #17
A very literal bride hunt, and a political space opera that runs on sex magic.