Two Books I Should Have Skipped: The Lost Story and The Dollmakers
A portal fantasy for people who don’t like fantasy, and sentient dolls we’re not supposed to think are sentient.
Tag: asexual
If Faith Were Fact: The Faithful Dark by Cate Baumer
‘Queer gothic fantasy with an ace healer, transmasc priest, and chaotic bisexual angel hunting a serial killer in fantasy Vatican’.
Seek Revenge, Dig (At Least) Two Graves: Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux
He was trying to murder his brother’s killer; now he has the lives of thousands in his hands.
Sweetly Shining: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
Letters going back-and-forth across a water-bound world, in what will probably be the most charming book I read this year!
You’ll Have To Pry It From My Hands: Earthflown by Frances Wren
A high-tension love story amidst a future London where cars fly and water is undrinkable.
March DNFs
Eight DNFs this month…
Babadook Who? Meet Your New Queer Monster Icon: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
An intense, cosy, poignant comedy-horror-fantasy about a shapeshifting goo-monster who eats people.
February DNFs
Not so bad – just two DNFs this month!
Sunday Soupçons #28
A maybe-fantastical historical novel in Tsarist Russia, and a beautiful but horrifying queer awakening in a magical dystopia.
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?