Indescribable, Unputdownable, Instant New Fave: Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
A book that asks ‘what would a world with healing magic look like?’ via five disaster-queers!
Tag: autistic
Sunday Soupçons #52
Psychics in San Diego and vampires in Paris!
Magical Minds: Neurodivergent Fantasy Recs!
It can be hard to find neurodivergent representation in fantasy – but it’s out there, and here are some of my favourite examples!
I’ve Been Starving For Exactly This: Hazelthorn by CG Drews
Queer autistic rage meets botanical horror in the most Gothic of Gothic manors.
Compelling But Not Convincing: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham
A dating show story trying to be the Hunger Games, and failing.
Surpassed My Every Wish: A Villain’s Hope by S.E. McPherson
My favourite poly fantasy shifts gears into Epic Fantasy!
Some Phoenixes Among the Ashes: Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann
Most of this collection wasn’t for me, but the stories that were make the whole book worth it.
King Arthur Can Suck It!: The Winter Knight by Jes Battis
The Winter Knight is not a retelling.
The explanation behind the Arthurian knights being in Vancouver is much weirder (and queerer and more wonderful) than a mere retelling!
An Infinitely Mindblowing Finale: The Infinite by Ada Hoffmann
I really did not know how Hoffman could possibly wrap everything up in just one more book.
But she did – and blew me away.
April DNFs
Six DNFs this month.