Legendary: Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
I think I might be ruined for romance by anybody else.
Tag: best of the year
An Absolute Dream I Want to Dream Again: The Nightmare Before Kissmass by Sara Raasch
The Prince of Christmas falls in love with the Prince of Halloween and HI, MEET MY NEWEST FAVE!
Psychic Empathy and Dragons: The Mountain Crown by Karin Lowachee
SURPRISE, instant new fave!
Pew-Pew On an Epic Scale: Deep Black by Miles Cameron
The kind of sci fi I LIVE for!
Rent My Heart in Twain: Asunder by Kerstin Hall
A deathspeaker in an exquisitely weird world is on the run with her shadow.
Alight With Joy: The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean
A MAGIC ZOO and WONDERFUL QUEER WOMEN and PHOENIXES, and it’s even better than I’d hoped!!!
Built Like the Tardis: The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach
You know how most of the books that get comped to Gideon the Ninth really shouldn’t be?
This one fully deserves it.
Miracles and Mirabilia: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
If you forced me to describe The West Passage’s aesthetic, my answer would probably be: Medieval marginalia meets Pliny’s Natural History with a dash of biblically accurate angels.
A Wildly Imaginative Success: The Failures by Benjamin Liar
How do I sell you on a book I can’t tell you about???
Hope Among Horrors: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman
Buehlman ripped my heart out of my chest and honestly, I kind of want to thank him for it.