Truly, Genuinely Unique Epic Fantasy: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
This is, genuinely, like nothing I have ever seen, read, or heard of before.
Tag: best of the decade
A Magical, Moving Masterpiece: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Theory by Sienna Tris..
Sometimes a book is simply perfect.
Intersectional Witchy Feminism: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
Think The Handmaid’s Tale vibes, but modern, Black, queer, and with MAGIC.
A Future I Want to Live In: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A very queer, near-future sci-fi where aliens have come to save us…by taking us away from Earth.
Gorgeous and Glorious: Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
Long after The Illiad is forgotten, they’ll remember Wrath Goddess Sing.
The Birth of a New Genre: The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards
A mass sigil of a book.
A Paean of Hope Against the Dark: Ansible–A Thousand Faces by Stant Litore
Ansible was pitched to me as featuring a ‘bisexual hijabi time traveler’, and you know what, that really is all I need to hear.
The Most Perfect Book to Ever Book: Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
If you crossed Catherynne Valente with N.K. Jemisin, you might be lucky enough to get something almost as extravagantly epic as Saint Death’s Daughter.
Paragonical: Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney
I had to invent a new word to express how perfect this book is.
I think that says it all, really.
Horrifyingly Beautiful & Utterly Perfect: The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolf..
I don’t think it’s possible to love a book more than I love The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt.