Wonder-Striking: The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
Sephardic Jewish portal fantasy that taught me how to feel wonder again.
Tag: best of the year
Sunday Soupçons #22
Chinese bandits taking on the Empire; a world where eating is taboo and sex is casual; and midwives with otherworldly powers!
Undomesticated Magic: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
There’s a support group for UnChosen Ones; do I really need to tell you anything else???
Baroque, Bizarre, Brilliant: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
A disaster!queer on the run from AI gods = a confusing but stunning sci fi fever dream.
Soaring High: The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
Queernorm Desi solarpunk with flying plant cities – and a reveal you’ll never see coming.
Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells
It’s been six years since Martha Wells’ last fantasy novel, and folx, it was so worth the wait.
Utterly Enchanting: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Don’t you want to read a magical book about magic books???
A Dragon-Rider Book Like No Other: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
QUEER
NATIVE-AMERICAN
DRAGON-RIDERS!!!
A Myth-Making Masterpiece: Rituals by Roz Kaveney
This is a tale of a woman who hunts gods and another who makes magic come undone, and absolutely everything about it is perfect.
(Well. Except for that cover. Sigh.)
Not Desperate, Just Glorious: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
In which humans are the monsters of the universe, Gaea needs to be burnt to the ground, and every bit of hype around this book is absolutely warranted.