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.
Tag: best of the decade
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?
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.
A Magical, Moving Masterpiece: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Theory by Sienna Tristen
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.